As for the web development the situation currently stabilized as an oligopoly between Facebook (React) and Google (Angular). Some projects are trying Vue, some leftover ones with Backbone, Meteor here and there, but it's overall a minor share.
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#12Some lonely ads are also asking for Ruby or Python.
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#14Bash and sql, because it's what really keeps things running, despite constant claims by hipster-hackers about how you should be using something else. Real IDE usage (vim/emacs).
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#15As for the web development the situation currently stabilized as an oligopoly between Facebook (React) and Google (Angular). Some projects are trying Vue, some leftover ones with Backbone, Meteor here and there, but it's overall a minor share.
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.
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#17Bash and sql, because it's what really keeps things running, despite constant claims by hipster-hackers about how you should be using something else. Real IDE usage (vim/emacs).
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#18Earlier 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?
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#19Much 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 something that drives others away.
Re: Ask HN: What tech stack is in demand, and why?
#20COBOL 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…
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 work for would ever change their financial system.