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by overgard 2406 days ago
There are so many things to do with computers that have nothing to do with the web, where native code is incredibly important. There's probably even more of those jobs than there are web dev jobs, it's just that hacker news is a bit of an echo chamber.
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ThrowawayR2 2406 days ago
Kind of a half-assed estimate but summing up web/mobile vs everything else (excluding QA) from the counts from this article https://learning.linkedin.com/blog/tech-tips/the-american-ci... gives us about 13% of software jobs being non-web. I lump in mobile with web since a lot of mobile apps are cross platform hybrid apps using web stuff.

Personally, I think even that estimate is too high; I'd be surprised if the true number wasn't somewhere closer to 5%.

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mattmanser 2406 days ago
Go on then, go look for them.

Go search on job boards and fine all those mystical jobs.

They are the tiny minority.

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overgard 2404 days ago
The last job I had was doing graphics coding for a video game, and before that it was c++ CAD programming. They’re not hard to find at all. They probably seem more rare because the barrier to entry is much higher but I think that's a good thing.
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mattmanser 2403 days ago
Selective hearing from you.

You claim there's MORE than web dev jobs. Go to a job site, type in developer, and count the web dev jobs. Now count the non-web dev jobs.

Worse still, you're repeating this and replying to me even after ThrowawayR2 gave you a hard number to go off (a mere 13%).

Not only do you have web businesses, but also almost all enterprise apps are now web apps. I'd guess that those are the vast majority of jobs in the market, but again you probably won't believe that.

They're all web dev jobs because it's easy to deploy. 20 years ago, I used to work in places that had to roll out desktop apps to everyone. It was a nightmare, as well as a security nightmare as they had to have the db open to the whole network.

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