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by Lyngbakr 1132 days ago
But presumably there is also more competition for jobs using popular technologies?

Perhaps the more important metric is supply of devs relative to demand. The top paying languages, according to the Stack Overflow's 2022 survey, are generally less popular: Clojure, Erlang, F#, LISP are the top 4. While certainly not an ideal metric (e.g., perhaps salaries are skewed due to more senior devs using these languages), this hints that the demand is certainly there relative to supply as companies are willing to pony up some decent cash for these devs.

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> But presumably there is also more competition for jobs using popular technologies?

Maybe, but personally I don't feel it has such a significant contribution as number of positions you can apply to. In these languages you basically can find a dozen of positions worldwide open at any given moment of time and apply to them, in JS you can find hundreds upon hundreds of positions every day and just filter and keep applying, and it still can take weeks or months to get an offer, a lot of your applications aren't even processed at that moment, which could be the case with less popular tech positions as well.