Majority of people treat Programming Languages as some sort of Cryptocurrencies.

@tsoding I guess the problem inherently comes from HR asking people to have 5 years of experience on a 3 year old language and also people having limited time to learn those languages. I know math, but that doesn't mean I know everything about math, same goes for prog. langs i guess.

@tsoding Time to buy some C++ stock.

@tsoding 99% Of employers don't care about programming experience, they just look if you delivered similar product with the specific languages they seek.

@tsoding Recruiters don’t understand this concept. Companies don’t care about this concept.

@tsoding This reminds me of an article by Gwern Branwen about technology holy wars: gwern.net/holy-war

@tsoding When you know programming (algorithms and data structures) you can write programs in any language with the help of manual. The investment is important to absorb and becoming fluent in the syntax, idioms and libraries, and of course consult less often the technical documentation

@tsoding A lot of people learn technologies instead of programming.

@tsoding would php be equivalent of bitcoin

@tsoding Also new languages are just kind of fun.

@tsoding I can't argue with that, but more important... What's inside that porn folder? Are you using chrome inside of emacs? What's your environment? Do you use st?

@tsoding For me it was a very low tolerance with bad design decisions, like the pointer syntax and the arrays in c. Led me to hop around a lot, until I realised you have to eat some garbage to find enjoyment.

@tsoding Meh, while I partially agree with what you're saying you're ignoring the reality that many companies don't want to spend time with arcane concepts like memory management and thus higher level languages are chosen. Most schools teach specific languages and this causes this trend.

@tsoding The only time I care about programming language tier-lists, is when I want to know which languages I can use for web dev BESIDES js (the answer may shock you)

@tsoding Absolutely agree, those are just the people looking for the newest and hypest stuff that can land them a job in less than 6 months. Although I can understand that, it’s definitely not a good general mindset. What you’re saying is very idealistic though but I agree

@tsoding @AlrizkiPasca siap2 serok pak Javascript klo ada

@tsoding Cryptocurrency doesn’t have fault! Capitalism made the rule

@tsoding So you think programming languages are just tools?

@tsoding There are vastly different degrees of "knowing a language". You can't "just learn" C#/.NET and be equally as good as the guy writing it full time for 10 years. You just can't.

@tsoding COBOL is undervalued and will moon again.