Thread: Analysis of Top Programming Languages Companies Need :: Inbelievable!

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    Analysis of Top Programming Languages Companies Need :: Unbelievable!

    I saw a link to a website that list an analysis of what companies are current looking for in a programmer in terms of programming language. The site owner conducted job searched at Monster.com, Hotjobs.com, and Dice.com.

    http://www.bitbreather.com/programming_languages.html

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    I cannot believe companies utilize Java more than C++. Why? C++ to my knowledge, experience, and understand is currently the most extensible programming lanaguage available.

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    I recently visited a presentation of the part of our company involved in office software, things like databases, e-commerce software and that kind of things. I noted there .NET and Java are the main technologies. The reason why in that part of the market Java is used more than .NET is that Java is available for a lot more platforms. That explains that Java is currently used a bit more than C#.

    I'm working at the part of the company working on embedded systems, also here Java is used a lot. There are new things like real-time Java, which is a kind of Java in which one can turn off the garbage collector to ensure real-time behaviour. Also JVM's are easy to apply and there are Java processors, JVM's implemented in hardware.

    Java in embedded systems is mostly used for writing applications, for example the telephone book on your mobile phone, games and other nice things. The main advantage of using Java here is remote updating of software. If you have a JVM run on a piece of electronics, you can send a Java bytecode application to it and just run.

    But Java is used for applications. There are JVM's written in Java, but most software beneath the JVM layer, like the OS layer is still written in C or C++.

    So Java has entered the embedded systems market. As I already pointed out, Java is applied for creating applications. If you buy a mobile phone, then you probably have that phone for several years. But there are a lot of people who always want the latest features on their phones, the latest phone books, the latest games etc. And that is where the companies get their money from, to create and maintain all those applications requires the companies to have Java programmers.

    Also since Java is quite new, there is need for Java programmers. Most companies already have C++ and C programmers.

    It is all about money.

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    Also since Java is quite new, there is need for Java programmers. Most companies already have C++ and C programmers.
    
    It is all about money.
    Excellent analysis!!! I missed the point about Java lifetime.

    Kuphryn

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    I plan to get into java as a side thing, to have it behind me as a language with the few others i know, but am much to involved in c++ to do that now.

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    I was told by a few people that c++ people with Java experience are usually hired over Java people for java positions.

    Interesting.

    Anyways, ride-or-die, you should stick with c++ if you can imho.

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    The issue of cost is quite scary for most programmers in the future. For example, business is about making money. Making money means choosing hte best solution based on cost. What if one day Microsoft releases a developer solution such that one function call creates a full-scale web browse (one example)? What will happen to developers? Heck, by that time anyone can develop applications. Just cut-paste one function call!

    Kuphryn

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    One function making a web browser??!! There would be no low-level control over the features of the web browser tho. THAT's why we have developers.
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    >Just cut-paste one function call!
    If it were so easy they wouldn't need something as complicated as a human being to do it, would they?

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    Demand!=Money;

    I noticed that LabView is way down on the list...however labview programmers are very hard to come by (mainly cause the software costs 5000 dollars for a single liscence copy). And they are paid big big bucks. I have used labview before on a project at work, and let me tell you it is some powerful shiznit.
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    just wait till face sees this thread, hes so anti java it scares me.

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    I have a friend who's into labview. He's a test engineer, and makes around 50k a year.

    I think labviews mostly used for test and software engineers.

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    that's it!!!!!!

    this world has gone nuts....

    and i'm following....
    ASP, here i come!!!!
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    How the hell could Java be before C++??? Has the world gone mad??? FAr out. !!

    AHH!!!!!!


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    Originally posted by face_master
    How the hell could Java be before C++???
    less platform dependent== less money spent on special machines.

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    easy crap language == less quantity + quality of developers

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