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There are more Java and C++ and Python jobs than Go or Rust or Typescript jobs, and I doubt that will change in 18 months. By the time new languages become the
by twblalock 6y ago
There are more Java and C++ and Python jobs than Go or Rust or Typescript jobs, and I doubt that will change in 18 months.
By the time new languages become the new industry standard, most developers will have had plenty of time to learn them. I've never heard of an industry change that happened so fast that it made the majority of working programmers obsolete in 18 months.
- teambayleaf 6y agoI think the lesson here is "don't be a commodity"? In this light, PHP coders are real commodities. They are paid lowly, treated as expendable, and get no respect by peers. I think they're going down the same path of "HTML experts" which were once lucrative business in early 1990s. Java/C++ programmers fare better because (I guess) there is some fundamental difficulty to be proficient at them. So, despite being old and boring, being good at Java or C(++) is still a good business. Learning Go/Rust is another way to avoid being a commodity. Although they have a smaller job market, employers need to treat you with respect, because they can't easily find another worker with a matched skill in the market.
- systematical 6y agoPHP devs make good money, maybe not what their peers in "good" languages make, but a good Senior PHP dev is making six figures in most markets these days.
- twblalock 6y agoJava and C++ aren’t popular because they are difficult to be proficient at. They are popular because they fit the needs of enterprise software better than other languages, and enterprise companies committed to them a long time ago and have huge amounts of software written in those languages.
- winrid 6y agoMaybe! But every recruiter I've talked to has a hell of a time finding Java or C++ jobs.