Developer Hiring Trends in 2017

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40 points·clumsysmurf··10 comments

React is obvious, it's included with nearly every front-end posting these days whether the company uses it or not.

But other than that it looks like it is a good time to be a data engineer or a Gopher. I'm surprised that Go is the only high growth language, but I guess it coincides with Docker/DevOps/Sysadmin growth.

IMO Go is a spiritual sequel to Java. Both strongly focus on programming for multiple platforms by large teams.

I don't think that go puts as much emphasis on cross platform.

It's the spiritual successor for Java running on servers - supporting Linux and OSX is all that's necessary.

Why OsX? Just for local development purposes? I don't think I've seen any OsX servers except as build machines for iOS builds.

Yes.

Is the main plot a little confusing? At least, I'm a little confused: the x-axis is labelled "% change from 2016 to 2015", and for example ReactJS has gone up by over 150% from 2016 to 2015...which means there was more ReactJS demand in 2015, right? except the article says it is the other way.

Am I missing something?

I'm sure it's just a typo (years reversed) and should read: "% change from 2015 to 2016"

I'm little surprised the high demand of Windows (desktop) developers vs low (even negative growth) in case of OSX Developers.

This chart: https://zgab33vy595fw5zq-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/...

iOS may be popular but it also seems very much tied to onsite work. Whenever I do remote-specific job searches there's 100x more remote opportunities for web devs.

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