Good point Andrew - its certainly true for us. Another point is that if you work for yourself (e.g. doing contract work), then you need to pick a tool that you can be productive in, as this is usually more important to most smaller clients than using Tool A or Tool B.
On Thursday, 5 March 2015 01:03:54 UTC+2, Andrew Farrell wrote: > > One thing to keep in mind is that there are more fields using primarily > python than using primarily ruby. A company that that does primarily > scientific computing in python may not advertise jobs in Django or Flask. > However, when they need to build a web interface for something, they will > reach for Django or Flask and so familiarity with that is useful. > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Javier Guerra Giraldez <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 5:40 PM, François Schiettecatte >> <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: >> > commit to learning a new one every couple of years (or more often if >> you can). >> >> this. >> >> even if I write Python as a requisite when hiring, I expect any new >> recruit to be able to pick languages as needed. Of course, that >> doesn't mean we're jumping all around, just that the languages must be >> tools not barriers. >> >> -- >> Javier >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAFkDaoQxLm3s49B73%3D4g5zNQv65und0xvRS%3DgizDWWAw3MdVDQ%40mail.gmail.com >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/cf183d40-b2e6-4043-8447-baf0cdef94c5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

