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Seems to be the same thing with Haskell and other languages, including Golang, that many groups on HN are passionate about. There aren't many people hiring for
by yapcguy 13y ago
Seems to be the same thing with Haskell and other languages, including Golang, that many groups on HN are passionate about. There aren't many people hiring for skills in these languages. Some start-up founders I know who have built their company on Python and Javascript, when I ask them if they have looked at Golang, they reply 'What's that?'.
- skriticos2 13y agoI'd be happy if someone would hire Python. Most of it is Java, PHP and C# around here. So sad.
- wtracy 13y agoWhere's "here"? I constantly get emails from recruiters looking for Python devs. (I'm in the SF area, but a lot of the ads I see are for New York and parts of the Midwest.)
- yen223 13y agoQuite frankly, "here" could be anywhere that's not near the Bay Area.
- skriticos2 13y agoI think so too. I'm located in Germany, but I think this situation applies to most all of the word except the west coast of the U.S.
- cmccabe 13y agoPython is 22 years old, Golang is 4 years old. Give it time.
- RussianCow 13y agoHaskell is even older, but you don't see many job ads for it. I don't think it has much to do with the age of the language. Node.js is an example of a very young platform that many, many startups are using. (Although, to be fair, JavaScript has been around for quite some time now.)
- cmccabe 13y agoIn order for a programming language to get used: * it has to fill a need people have. * people have to know about it. * it has to have a mature implementation. Age helps with point #2 and #3. With regard to JavaScript, the web browser pretty much forces you to use it. So it doesn't really matter how good or bad it is, it will have adoption.
- reginaldjcooper 13y agoYeah I don't see many positions for Haskell, either (and I'd like to). OOP class systems are so irritating when you could get more powerful type-checking from less boilerplate. Maybe I should look into F#? AFAICT it seems to be Haskell's sister, who left academia to do finance and is pulling seven figures in her early twenties.
- marshray 13y agoMy group in Azure is hiring. I don't think we have any Haskell in production, but I sure bet we could get away with using F# and the new immutable collections for a lot of new stuff. zip [marshray@; maray] [live.com; @microsoft.com] Email me, I'd love some coworkers who were really into FP.