"The 7 Most In-Demand Programming Languages of 2018"

[Lynn McGuire]

"The 7 Most In-Demand Programming Languages of 2018"

http://www.codingdojo.com/blog/7-most-in-demand-programming-languages-of-2018/

Huh, using job postings to determine language usage. I am not sure
about the validity of that.

Lynn

[Vir Campestris]

I wouldn't be. But they are using job postings to determine _demand_
which seems pretty reasonable.

Andy

[Jerry Stuckle]

Not valid at all. Job postings favor jobs with high turnover rates.
Stable jobs don't rate very high in such a survey.

For instance, IBM estimates over two billion lines of COBOL code are
written every year. But these are typically mainframe jobs where
programmers often spend their entire career with the same company or
government. You don't see that very much on any of the languages listed.

But it does show which languages have lots of short-term positions and
other reasons people don't stay.

--
==================
Remove the "x" from my email address
Jerry Stuckle
jstu...@attglobal.net
==================

[Chris Ahlstrom]

Vir Campestris wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

Sometimes one has to leave on project and join another.

I've had to do a lot of Javascript lately. A nifty language in some ways,
but hell to debug, and I am not allowed to use jQuery (because it supposedly
slows things wayyyy down... but maybe its because of Windows Server :-)

The same with C#. I still great prefer C++. I think C#'s overloading of
"." to be a scoping operator (like C++'s "::") and its use of "properties"
greatly detract from the comprehensibility of C# code. And those freaking
containers! Talk about your FAT INTERFACES!!! How many freaking member
functions... er, I mean, methods, does a class need?

And the occasional "zoning out" of web applications while they clean up
the garbage.

And last, but not least, Visual Studio not hitting Javascript breakpoints,
unceremoniously stopping the web app, IIS Express crashing...

I thought this stuff was supposed to be RAD. Not even close.

--
Debian Hint #9: If you need to know what version of Debian you're currently
running, look in /etc/debian_version or use 'lsb_release -sc' command. If you
want to know the codename for that version (for example, 5.0 is codenamed
'Lenny'), check this URL:

http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-ftparchives.html#s-codenames

[Chris Ahlstrom]

Jerry Stuckle wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On 12/15/2017 10:42 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> "The 7 Most In-Demand Programming Languages of 2018"
>>
>> http://www.codingdojo.com/blog/7-most-in-demand-programming-languages-of-2018/
>>
>> Huh, using job postings to determine language usage.  I am not sure
>> about the validity of that.
>>
>> Lynn
>
> Not valid at all. Job postings favor jobs with high turnover rates.
> Stable jobs don't rate very high in such a survey.

Good point.

A guy I know has spent the latter part of his career jumping from job to
job, always doing the same kinds of projects.

It's apparently a great way to leverage a good pay increase every year or
so, if you find the right locus of projects :-*

> <brevity snip>

--
You love your home and want it to be beautiful.

[James Kuyper]

On 12/17/2017 07:29 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
...

> A guy I know has spent the latter part of his career jumping from job to
> job, always doing the same kinds of projects.
>
> It's apparently a great way to leverage a good pay increase every year or
> so, if you find the right locus of projects :-*

True, but risky. I once knew a guy who did just that, but his last
high-paying job was funded only because of the political power of a
particular high-ranking official in a foreign country. When that
official lost a political fight, his project lost its funding, and he
couldn't find anyone else willing to pay him anywhere near as much as
they had been paying him. In principle, he could restart the process,
but that hasn't worked very well - partly because the Great Recession
intervened.