donovanm

It seems absurd to recommend a teaching language without any consideration for the technical merits of the language to me. The argument in the article is among the lines of lets use javascript because it has the most shiny things.

Yeah the interview process is kind of a mess sorry. If anything getting 3 offers out of 14 applications is a pretty good offer rate imo.

Getting everyone to come to a consensus on what should or shouldn't be included would be very difficult. Then there's also the issue of backwards compatibility. At the end of the day they're opt in so you can just simply not use them.

I've found it quite practical for getting things done, there's a higher learning curve then something like python though. From a career perspective it's hard to recommend anything that isn't one of the top most used programming languages, I'm not sure Haskell or most functional programming languages can do anything about that though.

I've gotten vscode working well on Windows with the haskero plugin. You'll need to install stack for this to work correctly.

That's quite an exaggeration, there's already written packages in emacs for lots of programming languages. Just need to add the package to your config.

It has nothing to do with job hoppers deserving more money, it's more that companies don't typically pay those who stick around as well. The job hopper would be more likely to already be making more money, therefore he'd have more leverage going into negotiations. The likelihood that you'd spend ten years specializing in something that is exactly what lots of companies need at the moment is fairly low, especially in an industry where the churn of technologies is high. It's more likely that they'd have ten years experience in a dated technology.

I think it has more to do with electron using JavaScript imo. JavaFx exists for a more modern java cross platform GUI

The median pay across the whole US for software engineers is quite a bit higher then the median income for all professions. Or are you referring to a different country?

No approach will ever make everyone happy, but some people would be happy with those deals. It's only natural to want to work on interesting problems and be paid well & I don't think there's anything wrong with striving for that. In an ideal world we'd only work on what is the most interesting to us with no concern for money. In the real world there is an unfortunate flaw where we need money in order to survive. Lots of companies have an even worse issue when trying to recruit where the work is boring and the pay is average.

If software engineers are really so easy to replace then why hasn't it happened? They're currently paid more then most professions so clearly businesses would take a cheaper path if available.

Sure, but as a one man operation trying to get Google level reliability is out of the budget.

I would argue the companies pay the price of training anyways via the higher cost of hiring the hard to find specialist.

Yeah this is very ugly on both sides. A basic contract would've saved everyone a lot of grief.