Have you looked at the latest results of the annual StackOverflow developer survey that was just released?
There might be some useful insights you can gleen from it. https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/ <https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/> -David Schwartz > On Jun 19, 2023, at 3:33 PM, trent shipley via PLUG-discuss > <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > > I was talking last week to my manager's manager about how I was staying busy > on the bench. I told him I was working on a dice roller in Python, which was > the first program I'm writing for myself, and that I was having a lot of fun > and learning new stuff. I said the other thing I was doing was working on a > Scala 3 class on Coursera, and that it was really challenging,but I enjoyed > it. Since the boss in a businessman he was interested in applications of > Scala. I told him it was used where safety was an issue, like finance and > energy trading. (Lots of Scala 2 programmers are 1. upset Scala 3 isn't 100% > backward compatible with Scala 2, that it's not as mature as Scala 2, and > *above all* they are angry that it preferentially uses syntactic white space. > I like syntactic white space. It's harder to write, but easier to read, > and when maintaining code reading is fundamental.). Scala also has some > rapidly fading application in data science, but even data science tools > written in Scala are now optimized mostly for use in Python. > > A lot of functional languages seem to come into their own when quality and > safety are important enough to justify their low market share and consequent > high cost of development. > > The manager's manager wanted to know what are some similar niche, > high-specialization--high-wage types IT jobs are out there. He's in the > contracting and consulting business, I think it's mostly just professional > curiosity, but I don't know where to start a search. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
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