Language?

Slow Eddie

Just reading today's news, I discovered that C# will soon pass Java in popularity, according to TIOBE. My question is regardless of "popularity" I would like to know which language is most desired/required by employers looking to hire someone? Just saying...

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Klingon ;P Serious?

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I discovered that C# will soon pass Java in popularity

Today it is c# (lol, today, since how many years....) Tomorrow it is log(sqrt(c^2)) Conclusion: It changes from day to day. :-\

Mike Hankey

It depends on what branch you are looking at. In my yard the branch over the power line... Embedded: C, C++ and someday, maybe Rust.. Web: C#, Javascript Desktop: C#, Java

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Graeme_Grant

Slow Eddie wrote:

I would like to know which language is most desired/required by employers looking to hire someone?

Everywhere is different. The best way to research this is to watch the job market where you live / want to work. It won't take long to work out what employers are looking for.

Graeme

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Amarnath S

IMHO, it is better to be language-agnostic and solution-oriented. Language details can always be filled up. For example, last week, I assisted a student with his Java assignment, though I had worked in Java only 20 years ago. Concepts of class, object, array, list, dictionary, program flow, etc. are the same in all OO languages, isn't it?

Lost User

You'll need "two languages" then ... one for the "employer"; and one for when you want to work for yourself. (The "end user" doesn't care about "languages")

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Edward Aymami

Thanks. Good information. I appreciate it. My Branch was the Navy... Crossed the Atlantic, Pacific, and Mediterranean, but not my power lines. :-D

Edward Aymami

I get that. However when one is looking for a job like me, it is what the employers want. :sigh:

englebart

Now you just need to find people that know OO. Last slate of job applicants thinks implementing a microservice that writes a row to a DB is OO.

jschell

Slow Eddie wrote:

which language is most desired/required by employers looking to hire someone?

Last time I read on how Tiobe was gathered it indicated that they are in fact gathering exactly that information. Only sources other than that which I have ever found were based on surveys often from sites that had a bias and often seemed to be of the form of 'do you think you will use X in the next year?'