In retrospect it was obvious this was coming with the Western economies being pumped up on steroids during the first few years of COVID-19.
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pulse-75
This was discussed on HN the other day.
This bill hurts small businesses just as much as startups too! And at a time when we need to be seeding the next generation of companies.
https://www.benfrederickson.com/github-developer-locations/
Just curious, what's the latest software startup that's in your words in a flyover state compared to an openai or databricks
It’s further false argument to say “the majority of developers are on the coasts” when the contention is whether there are successful companies elsewhere. The location of software engineering talent density will follow venture market funding availability, not companies that represent non-coastal success stories where that PE and VC money concentrates workers.
But there are plenty of companies.
https://www.cbinsights.com/research-unicorn-companies
> Software engineers live in non-coastal areas and red states and flyovers have plenty of startup successes these days.
There are plenty of software engineers in non-coastal areas and plenty of startups successes that aren’t on a US coastline, even if the majority are.
Apologies, I can’t reply to your comment. We are in too deep.
My best to you.
You then stated that there are software programmers everywhere and startups everywhere. I followed up with most programmers and startups are along the coast.
Not sure with what you disagree. It's like when State and Local Taxes were limited. It hurt California residents more than Idaho residents. It's not only coastal states but more costal states than non coastal states.
Edit: best wishes to you too
And GitHub accounts are not a particularly good proxy for "all developers." Many, many developers work in non-tech companies doing line-of-business software that will never see the outside of the building.
It may still be true that a majority of US developers live in those states, but that does not at all mean that political and societal shifts that affect developers are only something that happens on the coasts. (Hell, Texas isn't even on the East or West Coast—and I've literally never seen anyone talk about "coastal" people in that context and mean "Gulf Coast".)
And all of that is before even addressing your attempt to imply that not having a software startup that's comparable to two of the most influential recent startups is in some way indicative that an area's tech worker population isn't worth considering. That's on par with people thinking Apple is "doomed" because it doesn't come out with a new product as revolutionary as the iPhone every year. "Not the absolute top of the top" is not the same as "totally unworthy of attention".
https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/senior%20software%20en...
A tangent but I'm curious due to the language on this site: Is SWEng generally considered part of "IT" in the UK? Here in the states it seems most orgs consider IT strictly infra and "Dev"/"Engineering" is a separate thing. Some do place it within IT, but in my (limited) experience those orgs which do tend to have a running conflict with SWE fighting to get out of IT because of onerous policies which were perceived as not well-suited to their workflow.