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Ask HN: Do you use either C# or Java in your professional work?

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Re: Ask HN: Do you use either C# or Java in your professional work?

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Post by flurben »

iends wrote: post #12
Avalaxy wrote: post #10

Full-time .NET developer (doing all sorts of freelance jobs; ASP.NET, Xamarin, etc.). I think you'll find that if you look outside the silicon valley bubble, C# and Java are actually dominating the market and you won't get very far trying to find a Haskell/Rust/Go job.

This is very much true in experience as a developer in Raleigh, NC. The bigs ones are Java, C#, JavaScript (usually Angular, and a handful of Node.js jobs) in my area. Followed by Ruby. Python is usually listed as a nice to know and there are also a handful of Python jobs around. Go is started get get listed as a "nice to know language" in a handful of jobs. It's extremely rare to see a job mentioning Haskell and I c…

I'm hunting for a python job in NC/SC right now, and yeah, it's all C#, Java, JS.

Re: Ask HN: Do you use either C# or Java in your professional work?

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Post by tasdev »

Yes, .NET/C#/VB on a daily basis for a long time. JEE for a good period as well. I constantly keep an eye on jobs and in my local area I would say 85% fall into .NET or Java, with the majority being .NET. Other standouts include PHP, Python, and a little of C/C++, even VB classic. I've seen maybe 3-4 Ruby jobs advertised in the past 4 years, never anything for the Silicon Valley trendy. But then again, I live in a very small town (Hobart).

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Post by groundCode »

C# pays my bills at the moment. There's never been a lot of love for Microsoft on HN, but politics aside, C# is an excellent language in my opinion and where I am (UK), there are lots of C# and Java jobs. They tend to be more "corporatey" than the Ruby/Python cohort.

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Post by Yaziyumaru »

C# Developer here, I think C# is an incredibly good language and the Microsoft ecosystem is moving in a much better direction.

You have way more options for OSS nowadays and you don't have to be as reliant on Microsoft's black-box frameworks. I think these changes could improve the popularity of C# in the coming years.

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Post by scalesolved »

giaour wrote: post #24
strommen wrote: post #8

I live in a major U.S. metro that is not in California. Around here, I'd estimate that 75% of web development work is done in C# or Java. Thousands of jobs in both frameworks.

Seattle?

It says Minneapolis on his profile

Re: Ask HN: Do you use either C# or Java in your professional work?

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Post by partisan »

I use C# every day and it pays handsomely when coupled with expert level knowledge within an industry. The language is pretty darn good and the tools are great as well. Plus, most problems are solved online so it becomes a question of conceiving the right solution at a macro level.

For C#: ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web Api, WCF or ServiceStack for services, Entity Framework for data access.

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