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What Programming Languages Engineers and Employers Love and Hate

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Apparently I'm an unusual engineer, because I dislike Python.

You're not alone, brother

It’s funny that Clojure is not even on this list. Is it completely off employers’ radars? I have Clojure experience but I am finding that libraries and projects are getting abandoned by the dev community, so maybe nobody even cares about it any more?

I had the same feeling with my choice to focus on Elixir/Phoenix. My hope is that it can be grouped in with Ruby (a long shot I know). I think in your case Clojure can be grouped in with Java.

What's a lib or feature are you missing in the language?

Sorry for the late response. I didn’t mean that I missed a lib or feature. It’s just that many of the libs I see on Github are sometimes several years old and have been abandoned. Clojure seems to be incredibly featured and rich, but I find very few devs who have even heard of it (I often have to reference Lisp for context).

Seems odd that the global rankings are so out of step with local rankings. Given the local demand, I would have expected to see something like Typescript at the top. Scala looks like it's in completely the wrong position.

But what does jump out is exactly what this is measuring - it's languages listed on the CVs of people who got interviews. I'd wager that Scala and Ruby are up there as they indicate a level of experience, Ruby because it's been around a while, and Scala because it has a slightly steeper learning curve and generally isn't a "first language". That's probably also true of Go.

Has anyone successfully downloaded the report from https://hired.com/page/state-of-software-engineers/key-takea... ?

edit: Got it: http://pages.hired.email/rs/289-SIY-439/images/2019-State-of...

Given the methodology used and the lack of supporting data, I do not believe that any weight should be given to the results, interesting though they may be.

> programming languages

> HTML

I argued with people over this.

No Rust either.

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