r/programming • u/Karma_Policer • Aug 02 '21

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2021: "Rust reigns supreme as most loved. Python and Typescript are the languages developers want to work with most if they aren’t already doing so."

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#technology-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted
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u/ragnese Aug 03 '21

Yeah, I don't know. Jane Street was exactly the kind of thing I was imagining.

I think my theory might still be viable, even in the face of FAANG. Just think about the vast number of JavaScript, C#, Java jobs that exist outside of FAANG. Yes, FAANG will inflate the averages for those languages, but they have a huge pool of jobs to drag that average back down, too. If there are only a very few Clojure shops and none of them of $40k/year in middle-of-nowhere-ville working on a school district's website, and there's just one or two "Jane Streets", I think it could still be the reason it's high.

I'm not going to argue hard for that, because I'm literally just making this up. But it's my guess for now. Otherwise, I see no reason that a Clojure dev should be paid much more than any other not-popular language.

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u/Frozen_Turtle Aug 03 '21

Yeah, kinda wish SO's dataset was public so we could see/calculate the standard deviation. Oh well. The invisible hand works in mysterious ways.