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This is strange to me because I’ve taken and succeeded at two positions now where I didn’t know the language going in.
by fiddlerwoaroof 6y ago
This is strange to me because I’ve taken and succeeded at two positions now where I didn’t know the language going in.
- munk-a 6y agoI just wanted to clarify that I specifically called out how easy it is to hire for. A lot of developers are pretty quick when it comes to adapting to a new language and there are virtues that lean in favor of a language being easy to pickup: sharing a paradigm with popular language, sharing conventions with popular languages and good documentation. I have yet to work a day job in Rust, but I've worked in Java, C++ and Go so I'd be quite confident applying to a Rust position as long as it wasn't specifically security focused... I would be less confident in how quickly I could pickup Prolog - I think my brain works well for the nuances of the language but I'm less certain.
- fiddlerwoaroof 6y agoYeah, this is why I’ve concentrated on learning different kinds of languages in my free time, rather than learning the latest thing: if I know Python, Ruby is relatively easy to learn but Haskell is more difficult. So, it’s worth my time to learn Haskell rather than Ruby.