On Thursday, 29 March 2018 at 16:10:55 UTC, Johannes Loher wrote:
Am 29.03.2018 um 14:54 schrieb Bienlein:
On Monday, 26 March 2018 at 17:49:18 UTC, bauss wrote:
Eventually they will listen to you for about half a minute why
you like D. But in the end they will prefer someone with some
working experience with Kotlin or Scala.
I have to say, my experience was totally different. I recently
had quite many job interviews for jobs in which I would mainly
be using Java/C#. Because I like D very much, obviously the
topic came up in every single interview. Most of the time, I
was encouraged to solve the simple programming tasks they gave
me in D. I think they were actually quite impressed, both by D
itself and the fact that I am interested in such a "niche"
language. I believe showing that you are enthusiatic about such
things can help you with getting jobs much more than some
experience in a language which is "closer" to the language they
mainly use.
Also I believe that D shares a lot of characteristics with Java
and C#, in particular when you do OOP with D. I think you could
make a case for the statement, that D is closer to Java than it
is to C.
I landed a previous job using .NET about two years ago, because
of some D code I had written, so for me the experience is
different too.
