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Re: Ask HN: What tech stack is in demand, and why?

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Post by sp527 »

kamac wrote: post #15
sp527 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Share of new projects being spun up in Angular is probably on a serious decline as well. I don’t see too much future potential there. React will probably dominate for the immediate future.

Why nobody mentions ember? I thought it was the third most popular thing behind react and angular?

Framework adoption is likely power law distributed and therefore exponentially greater mindshare and ecosystem development (e.g. supporting libraries, learning material, best practices, blog posts, etc) accrue to the first place contender. It tends to be the case that technologies become fairly entrenched as a result of these effects, once they break out into mainstream adoption (think UNIX, SQL, etc).

Ember never made it to that point and almost certainly never will. People are still free to use it of course, but it’s going to be a poor technology choice in light of the above factors.

Re: Ask HN: What tech stack is in demand, and why?

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Post by rk06 »

staticelf wrote: post #20
shakna wrote: post #19

COBOL and Fortran. Probably with some z/OS as well. Much of the world's financial systems run on it, replacing it is infeasible, but the expert's in this area are aging out (and many have retired more than once). But the tech still needs maintaining, and is difficult to work with. Fewer and fewer grad students seem interested in learning it, and the expectation that you'll stay and work on this stack for 20+ years is…

> Fewer and fewer grad students seem interested in learning it Probably because it's not really fun languages to work in compared to newer things. I'd rather get paid a bit less and work with C# for example than get paid a lot more and being miserable. :) And since it is a language that will probably die off sooner or later, it is not really a good investment since it will limit your job prospects if the bank you wor…

the word is 'paid', not 'payed'. Spellcheckers fail to catch this because 'payed' is an actual word,

Re: Ask HN: What tech stack is in demand, and why?

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Post by staticelf »

rk06 wrote: post #22
staticelf wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Fewer and fewer grad students seem interested in learning it Probably because it's not really fun languages to work in compared to newer things. I'd rather get paid a bit less and work with C# for example than get paid a lot more and being miserable. :) And since it is a language that will probably die off sooner or later, it is not really a good investment since it will limit your job prospects if the bank you wor…

the word is 'paid', not 'payed'. Spellcheckers fail to catch this because 'payed' is an actual word,

Yeah, sorry, I should know that. Thanks for pointing it out. I am not a native speaker but I consider myself to be pretty good at written english anyway..

Re: Ask HN: What tech stack is in demand, and why?

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Post by js8 »

staticelf wrote: post #20
shakna wrote: post #19

COBOL and Fortran. Probably with some z/OS as well. Much of the world's financial systems run on it, replacing it is infeasible, but the expert's in this area are aging out (and many have retired more than once). But the tech still needs maintaining, and is difficult to work with. Fewer and fewer grad students seem interested in learning it, and the expectation that you'll stay and work on this stack for 20+ years is…

> Fewer and fewer grad students seem interested in learning it Probably because it's not really fun languages to work in compared to newer things. I'd rather get paid a bit less and work with C# for example than get paid a lot more and being miserable. :) And since it is a language that will probably die off sooner or later, it is not really a good investment since it will limit your job prospects if the bank you wor…

> Probably because it's not really fun languages to work in compared to newer things.

I work on z/OS utilities, mostly assembler. It can be fun, you have to be resourceful. z/OS is actually quite pleasant environment compared to many newer platforms (such as Windows), because you get a very high visibility into what's going on in the system.

I guess it depends on type of person. If you love to understand things across the stack (what's going on under), you might like it. If you would rather focus on an application (or framework) layer only, you probably won't.

Re: Ask HN: What tech stack is in demand, and why?

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Post by expertentipp »

pgsandstrom wrote: post #13

Living in Sweden, it seems to be to be Java and .NET that keeps the world running. React might be the most popular frontend library though.

... and Java (i.e. TypeScript) in the front end, until someone realizes that Java is nothing like JavaScript... now we have to hire some front end w* * * *s and throw the pile of TS at them.

Re: Ask HN: What tech stack is in demand, and why?

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Post by ojhughes »

hack2017 wrote: post #23
ojhughes wrote: post #16

Kubernetes, not a stack per say but increasingly important and worth understanding.

Isn't this some legacy pre-serverless platform they used to use in early/mid 201x's?

Or is it one of the building blocks of severless infrastructure? Banks etc will want to host serverless in house

Re: Ask HN: What tech stack is in demand, and why?

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Post by gcoda »

hack2017 wrote: post #23
ojhughes wrote: post #16

Kubernetes, not a stack per say but increasingly important and worth understanding.

Isn't this some legacy pre-serverless platform they used to use in early/mid 201x's?

Current form of "server less" is not that useful to most people. Not talking about proprietary tech, AWS is good, but considering Amazon web services as a profession sounds really distopian
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