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It is absolutely fantastic the gender issue is being thought about at long last.
But it is absolutely horrifying the ageism issue is not. Or worse, is as glibly explained away as past discrimination used to be.
> 10% of respondents self-identified as Ninjas. Real ninjas don’t tell you they’re ninjas. They just sneak up on you and slit your throat, which generally constitutes "hostile workplace environment." Ah, good wit. Very nice write up!
My company makes recruiting software so I talk and deal with many recruiters. I have to say I severely cringe every time a recruiter says "Rockstar" or "Ninja" (in a job description or ask if I am one). Just imagine using those terms for a talented medical doctor or lawyer. "Microservice" is quickly becoming another new recruiting term that I am beginning to despise. At least "agile" is mostly dead... mostly... Speak…
Fun fact. In Argentina the previous government used to give subsidies to McDonald's to keep the BigMac cheap, so these numbers around the world comparing salary to the BigMac index would look better.
I don't see a lot of Ruby. What's going on?
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I disagree. I'd much rather be forced to learn an entirely new profession and leave coding all together than to be required to write Javascript professionally. One thing this survey doesn't really touch on is the way the rise of Javascript is related to a fall in software quality. We write a lot more code now. More people write code. And a lot of that code sucks and it's a shame someone foolishly considers it product…
Cool story, bro, spread the gospel. Better keep people from easy access to programming and enjoy the beautiful software we had in the 90ies.
The modern misguided infatuation with Javascript is just another boring chapter in the same repeated story. In 15 years it will be something else.
My point isn't to convince anyone of anything. Indeed, most people who just want a job and just don't care will simply comply with whatever is popularized by enterprise bureaucracy.
But thoughtful people ought to remember there's no need for anxiety. Great developers survived the 90s and made lots of money without ever writing a single line of Java or enterprise C++. Great developers survived the 00's and made a lot of money without ever writing a line of enterprise C# or even ever opening Visual Studio.
And great developers will survive the 2010s and 2020s and make a lot of money without ever writing a line of Javascript.
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My company makes recruiting software so I talk and deal with many recruiters. I have to say I severely cringe every time a recruiter says "Rockstar" or "Ninja" (in a job description or ask if I am one). Just imagine using those terms for a talented medical doctor or lawyer. "Microservice" is quickly becoming another new recruiting term that I am beginning to despise. At least "agile" is mostly dead... mostly... Speak…
Maybe we've just replaced "agile" with "devops".
> The average developer is 29.6 years old. The median is 27. Does anyone else find this concerning given all the talk of age bias in tech?
I know a lot of people don't like the extra translation effort to debugging, and some aren't fond of significant whitespace, but I'm surprised that that's enough to make it into the top 5 most dreaded. Is there something else I'm missing?
It's interesting to see that over 34.5% of developers surveyed use some flavor of a JetBrains IDE: Intellij - 17% PhpStorm - 7.4% PyCharm - 6.8% RubyMine - 1.7% WebStorm - 1.6% --- Total - 34.5% This makes the Intellij IDE the third most used environment surveyed. If you're not using a text editor, chances are you're using a JetBrains IDE. I'd be interested in seeing the text editor vs IDE breakdown (broken down by a…
What I want to know is, how many pennies were in the piggy bank? My guess was 176.