For my part I hope to try and keep skills in a few languages for the sake of Job security / employability.
At the moment I have skills in Java and C# .Net as well as C/C++ to a lesser degree and at the moment am learning Objective-C for development of a native Mac O/S X background service I need. I also know some basic PHP and Perl and had a brief look at Python. As much as I have favourites I am not prepared to cut of my nose to spite my face or make myself a martyr by sticking to just one platform and refusing to use anything else. If Java dies which I sincerely hope it does not I have at lest other programming platforms I can fall back on such that I should still be able to get a job. I did .Net when that was the only work I could find. Much as I did not like it I would still do the same again if it was the only work I could get. Not that many people get to do exactly what they enjoy the most. A lot of people, particularly now in a recession, will take what work they can get. If they have the option of choosing to do something they would prefer to do they count themselves luck. Few get a dream job and many have to make compromises to do something more or less in the right area which might not be exactly what they want to do. I like to hope that the chances of Java and .Net and C/C++ dying in rapid succession is highly unlikely. I was also flirting with the idea of getting into Games development. Nothing may come of that but that space is dominated by C++. If I did decide I wanted to go into that field I doubt I would be doing much Java. At this point what I have seen so far makes me think it would take a lot of time and effort to build up the skills I would need not to mention there are few jobs available and what jobs there are will be aggressively competed for. Maybe I am going off topic a bit but it is an example that sometimes certain given fields are dominated by a given technology such that people are forced to choose between being in the field they want vs using the technology they want. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
