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i might be able to accept that there are more javascript developers than perl developers. this then implies there are more good javascript developers, but only

by b20000 5y ago

i might be able to accept that there are more javascript developers than perl developers. this then implies there are more good javascript developers, but only if javascript does not attract more wannabe developers. and i think that might be the issue.

cto_of_antifa 5y ago
Why gatekeep being a developer?
DonHopkins 5y ago
No, seriously, there is absolutely no comparison between the number of Perl 5 and JavaScript developers. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020 https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020 Most popular technologies: JavaScript: 67.7% for all devs, 69.7% for pro devs): First place! Perl: 3.1% for all devs, 3.3% with pro devs: Third from last place, only a wee bit more popular than Haskel and Julia! And you can take a guess at how many jobs for Haskel and Julia programmers there are. And it's not like good Perl 5 programmers are dropping dead, or being hit by busses: They're simply moving on to better, more popular, well supported, widely taught, more modern, higher paying, more pleasurable languages! Any programmer who permanently sticks to only one language and has "no interest in learning yet another programming language" simply isn't a good programmer, no matter what their only language is. Any decent professional programmer (ESPECIALLY web developers) should have no trouble picking up and applying new languages, and regularly using multiple languages together at the same time every day. The world is not partitions into mono-linguistic silos, and no one language is good for everything. If those monolinguistic Perl 5 developers b20000 speaks of who refuse to use any other languages are the only ones left for BooKing.com to hire, then it's no wonder they have enormous security holes and terrible buggy hard-to-maintain code. https://www.fastcompany.com/3026446/the-fall-of-perl-the-webs-most-promising-language https://www.fastcompany.com/3026446/the-fall-of-perl-the-web...

by b20000 5y ago

cto_of_antifa 5y ago

Why gatekeep being a developer?

DonHopkins 5y ago

No, seriously, there is absolutely no comparison between the number of Perl 5 and JavaScript developers. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020 https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020 Most popular technologies: JavaScript: 67.7% for all devs, 69.7% for pro devs): First place! Perl: 3.1% for all devs, 3.3% with pro devs: Third from last place, only a wee bit more popular than Haskel and Julia! And you can take a guess at how many jobs for Haskel and Julia programmers there are. And it's not like good Perl 5 programmers are dropping dead, or being hit by busses: They're simply moving on to better, more popular, well supported, widely taught, more modern, higher paying, more pleasurable languages! Any programmer who permanently sticks to only one language and has "no interest in learning yet another programming language" simply isn't a good programmer, no matter what their only language is. Any decent professional programmer (ESPECIALLY web developers) should have no trouble picking up and applying new languages, and regularly using multiple languages together at the same time every day. The world is not partitions into mono-linguistic silos, and no one language is good for everything. If those monolinguistic Perl 5 developers b20000 speaks of who refuse to use any other languages are the only ones left for BooKing.com to hire, then it's no wonder they have enormous security holes and terrible buggy hard-to-maintain code. https://www.fastcompany.com/3026446/the-fall-of-perl-the-webs-most-promising-language https://www.fastcompany.com/3026446/the-fall-of-perl-the-web...