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Finding Meteor Work

24 points by karayu 13y ago

7Figures2Commas 13y ago
While it's technically true that "a large majority of clients won’t care one bit if you code their app in Meteor or Fortran as long as it just works," I take issue with the quote, "We sell them on Meteor because JavaScript is a universal language and it will be easier to hire for later when they replace us." When your application is built using a framework (or "platform") today, the underlying language often matters very little and you will realistically need a framework expert. Yes, you might be willing to pay somebody talented to learn, but a lot of good developers won't even want to touch a new framework unless they believe it will take them in a direction they already want to go in the first place. I don't envy the companies that are being sold on the frameworks and NoSQL databases du jour. Most of them are merely buying themselves a limited labor pool and high salaries/hourly rates.
- sgdesign 13y ago
  I think the point Josh was making is that all things being equal, it's easier to find a JavaScript coder than, say a Scala coder. But yeah, the framework definitely matters as much as the language.
Bahamut 13y ago
The article comes off as a bit desperate - they want all developers who want to bill themselves as Meteor experts to list it as a skill & promote it as such, but developers shouldn't be shoehorning themselves like that. Devs enthusiastic about your tech will be evangelizing it/talking about it without being spurred to. An article like this shouldn't be necessary.
- joshowens 13y ago
  I think you really missed the point on that. I barely keep my profile updated on LinkedIn and they are trying to spur the community to update their profiles to be more relevant to what they are doing now. That isn't desperate, just a smart way to grow. The Meteor Development Group is very interested in helping companies using Meteor to find solid developers. I went to an unconference a few weeks ago and it was clearly at the top of Matt Debergalis' list.
CmonDev 13y ago
I would be careful about overselling the Meteor as well. Not all projects are trivial web-apps, some enterprise clients will benefit from strongly typed languages on server-side as opposed to legacy ones.

24 points by karayu 13y ago

While it's technically true that "a large majority of clients won’t care one bit if you code their app in Meteor or Fortran as long as it just works," I take issue with the quote, "We sell them on Meteor because JavaScript is a universal language and it will be easier to hire for later when they replace us." When your application is built using a framework (or "platform") today, the underlying language often matters very little and you will realistically need a framework expert. Yes, you might be willing to pay somebody talented to learn, but a lot of good developers won't even want to touch a new framework unless they believe it will take them in a direction they already want to go in the first place. I don't envy the companies that are being sold on the frameworks and NoSQL databases du jour. Most of them are merely buying themselves a limited labor pool and high salaries/hourly rates.

sgdesign 13y ago
I think the point Josh was making is that all things being equal, it's easier to find a JavaScript coder than, say a Scala coder. But yeah, the framework definitely matters as much as the language.

Bahamut 13y ago

The article comes off as a bit desperate - they want all developers who want to bill themselves as Meteor experts to list it as a skill & promote it as such, but developers shouldn't be shoehorning themselves like that. Devs enthusiastic about your tech will be evangelizing it/talking about it without being spurred to. An article like this shouldn't be necessary.

joshowens 13y ago
I think you really missed the point on that. I barely keep my profile updated on LinkedIn and they are trying to spur the community to update their profiles to be more relevant to what they are doing now. That isn't desperate, just a smart way to grow. The Meteor Development Group is very interested in helping companies using Meteor to find solid developers. I went to an unconference a few weeks ago and it was clearly at the top of Matt Debergalis' list.

CmonDev 13y ago

I would be careful about overselling the Meteor as well. Not all projects are trivial web-apps, some enterprise clients will benefit from strongly typed languages on server-side as opposed to legacy ones.