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Thanks for the comment, I think I've seen your blog before actually! I know a few FP specific recruiters in London, and my feeling is that FP is not quite wides

Thanks for the comment, I think I've seen your blog before actually! I know a few FP specific recruiters in London, and my feeling is that FP is not quite widespread enough that you could jump directly from one contract to the next without being in Java/C# land at least a little bit. Almost all of the FP jobs I've seen are <an imperative language>, F#/Scala/clojure experience considered beneficial. Are you working more with greenfield projects or transitions from Java would you say?

noelwelsh 14y ago
Definitely having Java helps. I'm of the belief that any competent dev should be able to pick up Java in a few weeks. Not everyone shares this opinion, and more importantly HR types rely on keyword scanning and will probably throw away a CV that doesn't mention it. As for projects, it's a mix. As I'm not heavily involved in the finance side I can't really say what the mix is. On the media side I'd say it's perhaps 50/50.
- mogrim 14y ago
  Java the language, definitely. But Java the language + Spring or Android or whatever framework your project is based on? Not sure that "a few weeks" would be enough for that.