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If you want a low stress good paid job, where you would be able to rush home at 5pm, then yes. If you are looking for excitement, learn $hype_of_the_year and j
by levosmetalo 8y ago
If you want a low stress good paid job, where you would be able to rush home at 5pm, then yes.
If you are looking for excitement, learn $hype_of_the_year and join a startup, but be ready to learn $hype_of_the_next_year soon.
- jrs95 8y agoOddly enough most of the startups around where I am at have been based on Rails. Some people use Node as well. That’s about as $hype_of_the_year as it gets here.
- solarkraft 8y agoWhere is that?
- jrs95 8y agoColumbus, OH
- fastbmk 8y agoI think Rails/NodeJS are the most popular choices for startups everywhere in the world. Both technologies are made for lean development.
- inglor 8y agoNode.js is 9 years old and is also very stable with a large ecosystem. It's far from "hype train" in 2018 and it's more the mature technology - though it's still moving fast forward with new tools and paradigms it's very stable.
- inglor 8y ago> If you want a low stress good paid job, where you would be able to rush home at 5pm, then yes. Those aren't exclusive, you can do something exciting, join a startup, learn $hype_of_the_year and still work for a place that understands that burning out employees is stupid. It's perfectly reasonable to work for a place that is both exciting and doesn't make you sacrifice your personal life because they acknowledge that it's bad for business.
- rfg34te4 8y agoYou're right. I wish more startup CEOs agreed with you.
- fortythirteen 8y agoThere's an argument to be made that Java positions are the easiest to fill with lower waged visa or offshore workers, meaning that you have to maintain an extremely high proficiency, move into management, or be under constant threat that your job will be outsourced.
- bloomthrowaway 8y agoI think it might be the other way round these days. Java programmers are outsourced because they're so expensive. Javascript seems like the best target now for low-skill outsourcing. Much lower barrier to entry, and arguably a much more forgiving language
- fortythirteen 8y agoI think you're right when it comes to the lower tier of JS developers, but IMHO there are a lot less middle tier devs per-capita in JS than Java. Proficient fullstack JS is a very in-demand skillset right now, and if you're an expert you can find a new, high paying job, in just about any mid-tier tech town in 48 hours.
- tanilama 8y agoStartups, assuming SV internet flavor startups, their tech stack is pretty standardized nowadays. Python/Ruby/Node/Java, could cover like 99% of them maybe. Don't really see where the excitement is.
- Delmania 8y agoI'm in a startup using Java.
- chespinoza 8y agoJava 10?
- Delmania 8y agoYes, along with javafx, jetty, Jersey, and web sockets.
- akerro 8y agoI work with TypeScript, Golang and Java and I find Java the most exciting. There are a few or several libraries for everything, each of them well polished, new great features coming to Java language and JVM every 6 months, great support on every platform, many build tools to choose, that are easy to use. Things like GraalVM, local type inference, Jigsaw, SpringBoot and Jenkins make Java top language you can use these days.
- boobsbr 8y agoI played around with ES6 and TS for a year and coming back to Java was not pleasant. The functional aspect of JS/TS is something I cannot get on Java, even with streams on Java 8. Just doesn't feel right.
- bloomthrowaway 8y agoTry RxJava or JINQ! I believe RxJava was actually first, RxJs being a port of that, if you would believe it :) .