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Shoot, some syntaxes haven't even been around long enough to have a for-loop documentation page hit the front page of a google search of "{language} for loop".
by ehnto 5y ago
Shoot, some syntaxes haven't even been around long enough to have a for-loop documentation page hit the front page of a google search of "{language} for loop". As an agency developer I've got like 6+ languages/markup syntax knowledge required of me any given year, they just keep making new ones and I have to keep learning them.
My current requirements, just this month, are:
* Python
* PHP
* Javascript
* React and Vue
* TypeScript (but not in every JS project!)
* Blade templating
* Liquid templating
* Whatever Algolia uses for it's inline templating
* Bash
* C# (games!)
And if you want you could throw in arbitrary configuration syntaxes for all the infrastructure as code insanity that comes with it all, some of those have loops.
- jdavis703 5y agoSure, but why is someone asking you to use Algolia templates in an interview?
- ehnto 5y agoIt was just to illustrate how much arbitrary knowledge is required in modern stacks. We could be talking about totally different industries though, perhaps you're hiring senior C developers and it'd be weird if they didn't know the syntax yet. For apps and web development, I wouldn't fuss too much about specific language syntaxes since if I were to cull my applicants based on language experience I'd be throwing away plenty of talented developers. I'd hire a talented Python developer for a job writing JS for example, if they're applying then they're willing to learn it.