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It is much easier to find a top notch web developer than it is to find someone top notch who is good at C++. This is the case anywhere in Silicon Valley where C

It is much easier to find a top notch web developer than it is to find someone top notch who is good at C++. This is the case anywhere in Silicon Valley where C++ programmers who actually know what they are doing are needed. VMWare, for instance, pays like $160,000 starting salary to C++ wizards.

KirinDave 18y ago
> It is much easier to find a top notch web developer than it is to find someone top notch who is good at C++. I disagree with this. Top notch people in web development are extremely rare. You can find a lot of mediocre people, or motivated people, but finding people both motivated and talented is hard. It's also unfortunate that Google limits itself to C++, but that's a whole different story.
- blogimus 18y ago
  I agree that it is harder to find top notch people than mediocre, that just seems natural, following the talent bell curve(most in the middle level of ability, some very poor, some excel) but how does Google limits itself to C++? I read a lot of noise on Google using Python: http://www.python.org/about/quotes/ http://www.python.org/about/quotes/ (and this is just a starting point of the info on Google using Python)
  - menloparkbum 18y ago
    Google doesn't limit itself to C++, they just happen to need C++ programmers at the moment.
  - hello_moto 18y ago
    They're not limiting themselves to C++. But, view it from a different perspective: 1) C++ is a superset of C (to some extend, this isn't 100% true, but most concepts in C are applicable to C++) 2) If you know C++, it is a little bit easier to grok Java 3) I heard most of their back-end stuffs are written in C++ I also read news about Google being a huge Python company. But to be honest, I haven't heard a product that they shipped that is written in Python. Python is big internally where they need tools to support their development. PS: - GAE library does not count as their product - Exclude YouTube because they chose Python on their own

KirinDave 18y ago

> It is much easier to find a top notch web developer than it is to find someone top notch who is good at C++. I disagree with this. Top notch people in web development are extremely rare. You can find a lot of mediocre people, or motivated people, but finding people both motivated and talented is hard. It's also unfortunate that Google limits itself to C++, but that's a whole different story.

blogimus 18y ago
I agree that it is harder to find top notch people than mediocre, that just seems natural, following the talent bell curve(most in the middle level of ability, some very poor, some excel) but how does Google limits itself to C++? I read a lot of noise on Google using Python: http://www.python.org/about/quotes/ http://www.python.org/about/quotes/ (and this is just a starting point of the info on Google using Python)
- menloparkbum 18y ago
  Google doesn't limit itself to C++, they just happen to need C++ programmers at the moment.
- hello_moto 18y ago
  They're not limiting themselves to C++. But, view it from a different perspective: 1) C++ is a superset of C (to some extend, this isn't 100% true, but most concepts in C are applicable to C++) 2) If you know C++, it is a little bit easier to grok Java 3) I heard most of their back-end stuffs are written in C++ I also read news about Google being a huge Python company. But to be honest, I haven't heard a product that they shipped that is written in Python. Python is big internally where they need tools to support their development. PS: - GAE library does not count as their product - Exclude YouTube because they chose Python on their own