Comments by "T J" (@TJ-hs1qm) on "The State of Develper EcoSystems 2023" video.

  1. Kotlin is filling the void on the JVM that Scala should have occupied. Sadly, Scala underwent a series of political and cultural upheavals, but its capabilities are on an entirely different level. It laid the foundation for many of the newer languages, including Java itself, Kotlin, Go, and Rust. You can't go wrong with either one of them. Clojure and OCaml also offer high-paying job opportunities.
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  2. Spark pipelines can be run without any real Scala skills, the majority of data analysis is run in Python now a days. I'd say the job market for less known languages is just smaller, so big players as Disney Streaming, will easily skew the salary curvy. There's also still a lot of Scala in finance, fraud detection and in online gambling (Malta). specialized fields tend to hire only the best.
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  3.  @Crow-EH  yea, John A De Goes himself has moved on to Rust. There's no money anymore in Scala.
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