On 15.11.23 21:24, Adrian Cochrane wrote:
But given the dominance of C/C++, does that count for much?
Actually, a language tends to dominate some niches and be totally absent in others. I.e. if you do servers, you'd likely find it dominated by Java (or maybe C++, I'm biased), and some Python; if you do embedded scripting in applications, you'd likely find yourself doing Lua (but it's a really small niche), in scientific computing, Python is dominant, etc. So the real question would be: Is there a niche that you gravitate towards, and what language(s) are they using there? Note that it's hard to predict what niche will work best. E.g. I would have never expected to end in backend servers for the most boring topics imaginable (company stuff), and find that I'm more of a process organizer than programmer at heart and find it fun and rewarding making things interact smoothly, be it server-to-server, server-to-frontend, frontend-to-human, or even human-to-human. I would have laughted anybody out of the door if that had been predicted to me when I was studying, and even when I was 30 and didn't (yet) know what would catch on for me. I'm well aware that this is a kind of anti-answer to your question, but it seems life does not always give you answers before forcing a choice on you - on the positive side: Don't worry too much about the choices that you make, just make the best of whatever cards life deals to you. Regards, Jo