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Ah yes, I keep forgetting that HN folk are American-centric and often either do not know or forget that the vast majority of developers do not actually live the
by askonomm 6y ago
Ah yes, I keep forgetting that HN folk are American-centric and often either do not know or forget that the vast majority of developers do not actually live there, or work for FAANG.
Outside of USA, a little digging I did via Glassdoor:
Buenos Aires, Argentina:
- Rust: ~5 jobs
- Go: ~3 jobs
- Java: ~800 jobs
Lisbon, Portugal:
- Rust: ~6 jobs
- Go: ~30 jobs
- Java: ~278 jobs
Barcelona, Spain:
- Rust: ~1 job
- Go: ~50 jobs
- Java: ~751 jobs
These are just places I've lived at and while I can see Go slowly becoming a thing, Rust is still half a decade away from anything tangible for the real world I would say. So if anyone asks me what should they become an expert in for the next 10 years, I would not hesitate to say Java.
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoYeah, I've been on HN for a decade now (back when Ruby was the new hotness), and I remember looking through the engineering jobs in Ireland and almost entirely Java and C#. Additionally, pretty much all the distributed data processing tools run on the JVM, which is a big deal if that's what you do for a living.
- twic 6y agoNot just American-centric, but "Silicon Valley working on "cool" teams"-centric. Across all jobs in the US, Go and Rust are still a tiny share.