Years of Job Listings Show Some Trends for Hiring Coders
by Jim Turley
“Kid, when I was your age, we programmed computers by hand using ones and zeroes. And some days we ran out of zeroes.” Okay, boomer, but today’s programming languages are a
wee bit more advanced now. So advanced that it’s tricky to know which language(s) to learn or how useful they’ll be. Will C# expertise get me a job? Is it worth learning Perl? Should I hone my ninja Java skills or switch to Python?
Turns out, there’s an answer to that. International programming school Coding Dojo has been scouring job listings for years to see which languages are in demand, which are declining, and which are on the rise.