Leading skills for Software Architect and CTO is JavaScript. Is this based on companies made up of 20 year olds?
10 Shapes of Dev
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#221300 samples? With JavaScript being the strongest skill across the board? I'm not sure I actually believe the word "senior" in any occurrence on this page.
It takes strong personality and many years of practice to learn JavaScript well. Stuff like elegance, compiler checks, namespaces are for cowards. If one survives JavaScript, any other task will be easy.
Its also not been an especially popular skill to learn until the last 5 - 10 years I would say.
Its seems contradictory that the roles requiring years of experience (or they ought to) have JavaScript as the top skill. I would have expected an older less trendy language (like Java or C, or SQL) to be top in those positions.
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Here at UT Austin there's a pretty big difference between the two (including pay - Engineer is higher). The Developer maintains the programs whereas the Engineer is the one who initial creates them. They're state awarded titles, so it may be different in the private sector.
I saw a post recently about the difference between Engineer and Developer (I think on HN). It is definitely a contentious issue for some programmers.
There are places in the world (like here in Quebec, Canada) where the term "Engineer" is restricted. To call yourself an engineer, you have to be a member of the "Ordre des Ingénieurs du Québec".
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#24Question: how many years of experience you think it takes to be considered "senior"?
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#25I read this as "50 Shades of Dev" and got really confused.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had to use Ruby on a couple of different projects and it left a really sour taste in my mouth. Granted some of it really wasn't fair to Ruby but it still did. This gives me hope that I'm more in line with the development community rather than a curmudgeon :)
"...really sour taste in my mouth..." - have you tried JS? Sour is not the worst taste out there.
I understand JavaScript but in Ruby some of the syntax felt backwards to me. The worst part was rails though (hey I said it wasn't really fail to Ruby since Rails !== Ruby) as it has so many things that are practically "magic" where you name things certain ways and it does different things. It just rubs me the wrong way; I love everything to be incredibly explicit so I always can figure out what's going on.
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#271300 samples? With JavaScript being the strongest skill across the board? I'm not sure I actually believe the word "senior" in any occurrence on this page.
Agreed on the "senior" designation. I'd prefer to see number of years developing software instead of an arbitrary title as the measure of experience.
The problem is, those title are just that - arbitrary. I've seen "senior" or "lead" developers with less than five years of experience. I don't necessarily have a problem with that if they're really that good, but how often is that the case?
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#28Is CSS really more popular than HTML5?