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In the same boat as the OP, kinda, but for me, I feel like the interesting problems at interesting scales are not being done in Node: - I do 100% Node.js backe
by iends 7y ago
In the same boat as the OP, kinda, but for me, I feel like the interesting problems at interesting scales are not being done in Node:
- I do 100% Node.js backend work and am a technical lead.
- I did a lot of Java in college, and tiny bits of Java over the past 10 years (servlets on websphere)
- I've gone through phases of doing Go in my free time, and really like it, but jobs seem scarce
- Before JS I spent ~2 year doing Python/Django professionally. I used to do all my whiteboard questions in Python but now use JS. (I've been paid to write Perl, C, & C# in addition to the languages mentioned above.)
I've looked at Elixir, Rust, & Go but none of those languages seem to have critical mass. Do I really need to learn enterprise Java to go up market in terms of money and scale?
- kugelblitz 7y agoI think PHP is also implemented in a lot of large scale apps, I've worked in some large e-commerce companies that use it as the main language. If you want to go for bigger companies, I think they do use a lot of Java or C#. JavaScript is pretty much everywhere, Python is popular, but as a web developer, I don't get as many inquiries as PHP or JavaScript. Could be that mostly webdev recruiters contact me, but could also be regional (I'm in Germany).
- Antoninus 7y agoI think you will always have a job if you write PHP/Laravel. There it seems to be at least 2-3 shops in every city world wide that has a product built with that stack.