On Thursday, 29 March 2018 at 16:10:55 UTC, Johannes Loher wrote:
I have to say, my experience was totally different. I recently had quite many job interviews for jobs in which I would mainly be using Java/C#. Because I like D very much, obviously the topic came up in every single interview. Most of the time, I was encouraged to solve the simple programming tasks they gave me in D. I think they were actually quite impressed, both by D itself and the fact that I am interested in such a "niche" language. I believe showing that you are enthusiatic about such things can help you with getting jobs much more than some experience in a language which is "closer" to the language they mainly use.
Yes, I beliebe that enthusiasm and passion is something people are sometimes looking for at job interviews. In my last job interview I showed some passion about concurrent programming and I think they like that, that is the passion. Whether it is about concurrent programming or D might not be that important.
I landed a previous job using .NET about two years ago, because of some D code I >had written, so for me the experience is different too.
This is interesting. Maybe I write a little framwork or something in Kotlin and file it on github. Then I have something to show in any case. And from then on I can just play with D ;-)
