Future(s) for D.

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 23 June 2015 at 08:49:45 UTC, Chris wrote:
> On Saturday, 20 June 2015 at 17:10:27 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Yeah. A guy I know had a hard time finding a job with Java. HR 
> would always demand experience with this or that build tool and 
> stuff like this. As if you couldn't learn this in a week or 
> less, at least enough to be able to contribute to a project. 
> Actual programming skills never seemed to be really important. 
> Weird.

And as a consequence,  we see:
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/06/the-time-needed-to-fill-jobs.html

The present state of hiring processes can't go on, and so it 
won't.

http://www.amazon.com/Why-Good-People-Cant-Jobs-ebook/dp/B00850ZOKI