Future(s) for D.
Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Jun 20 10:10:26 PDT 2015
On 06/20/2015 12:34 PM, ketmar wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 12:23:59 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>
> let's compare numbers for php, java, ruby, js -- and D. most companies
> will not bet on language for which a pool of "hireable" developers is
> small. and it's understandable: two developers quit, and the project is
> dead, doomed to complete rewrite in another language. sheesh!
>
Well, not really. I mean, managers and HR all *believe* that to be so.
But that's because pretty much all non-programmers, even ones in the
software dev industry who really should know better, are stuck in this
bizarre idea that programming skills are somehow non-transferable
between languages. Which is obviously total bullcrap, but try explaining
that to self-assured HR folk and other pointy-hairs.
Hell, my first introduction to JS, ASP (yea, it was a long time ago) and
web-dev in general was on-the-job as a fresh hire, and I was up to speed
in like a week or so, if even that.
The one thing relevant here that has *never* left my mind:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchools.html
Favorite part:
"The recruiters-who-use-grep, by the way, are ridiculed here, and for
good reason. I have never met anyone who can do Scheme, Haskell, and C
pointers who can't pick up Java in two days, and create better Java code
than people with five years of experience in Java, but try explaining
that to the average HR drone."
So true.
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