[moksly]

It’s rather hard to score programming languages isn’t it? Especially in any form that’s generally meaningful.

If you look at HN you’d think Go and Rust were actually very popular. If I look at the job agents for my country though, there has been one job listing Go and Rust in 2019 and that was under “nice to have” on a C++ job at Google. On the flip-side of this, if you looked at my local job market the list would only contain JAVA, C# and PHP. Well and JavaScript, but that’s typically in the “nice to have” section because no one uses it full stack and it’s easy to learn. If you looked in your area it might be Ruby and Swift.

Python always have massive stats, but around here 80% of the Python jobs aren’t for CS majors but rather for mathematicians and political scientists.

I wonder what these lists are even for. Some of the best paying programming jobs are for COBOL and it’s never in the top 10, if it’s even in the top 100.