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In my experience C and C++ development are becoming more and more niche skills. Sure operating systems are written in those languages but I would call that a ni
by mimog 14y ago
In my experience C and C++ development are becoming more and more niche skills. Sure operating systems are written in those languages but I would call that a niche. And a small one at that. Then there is the embedded world, of course embedded systems are written in C or C++ either because of hardware constraints or real time requirements. Turns out however that even embedded systems are becoming so powerfull that C is no longer the only contender. Sure tiobe index claims that C is the king, but if you look at the job market you will quickly realise that C and C++ are not very sought after skills and are relatively low paid ones at that. Thats at least the case in my country, and has been so for many years.
- EliRivers 14y agoFair enough. In my personal experience, C is the big coding skill looked for, but I mostly work for defence companies and major manufacturers. If you don't look at job listings for that sort of company, or your country simply doesn't have those industries in significant size, you'll see something else. I regularly see skilled embedded coders being poached with ridiculous pay rises because they're so useful and so hard to get (40 or 50 percent increase in salary upon being poached/headhunted isn't uncommon for someone a few years out of university who spent those few years learning how to code for embedded systems, but that's usually being poached between defence companies and major appliance makers - Lockheed, Thales, Honeywell, that kind of thing).