[moksly]

> Unfortunately there's just not a lot of value to being able to put on your resume that you're an expert at an older language that nobody has heard of...

Depends on where you live I suppose. My city has more COBOL jobs than Rust/Elixir/Go/Haskel/Erlang/Ruby jobs combined. It’s still mostly C#/JAVA/PHP, but those hyped languages we read about all day on HN never actually become a thing around here. Node.js is the only exception I can think of. Python has certainly picked up, but most python jobs here require a degree in math or statistics.

I guess it’s probably very different in Silicon Valley and other tech hubs, but it’s my impression that most of the world still runs on something old.