On Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:53:32 UTC+1, clay wrote: > > Casper, this is your bright side. You are touching on the core issue that > genuinely concerns me and triggered my emotional posts: engaging > programming work versus the reality of most paid programming jobs. Exotic > programming language features are intellectually interesting but generate > few job positions. SharePoint integration/maintenance work is basically > completely devoid of anything intellectually interesting but generates lots > of salaried job positions. > > Most salaried programmer work is not remotely interesting. Typically > businesses don't hire programmers to do interesting new development. They > choose the interesting parts from off the shelf components and hire > programmers to handle implementation, integration, maintenance, and support. > > When businesses are hiring for mundane integration, support work, they > want to make the work as easy as possible, they want to be able to hire > from the widest pool as possible, and they want programmer personnel to be > as interchangeable as possible. That means reducing developer choice and > using a more streamlined toolset. Microsoft has been successful and given > this crowd what they want. Java tried to win this crowd with Java EE, but > never came close to what Microsoft could do. > > The veteran intellectual developer types want maximum choice and > flexibility. This is where Java really shines. This is why such a high > ratio of the more interesting libraries, concepts, and startups come out of > the Java ecosystem. > > In the more entry level, ease of use camp, you find a high correlation > between those that prefer .NET, point-and-click-interfaces, Windows OS, and > Microsoft Office. > > In the other more serious technology geek camp you find a high correlation > of those that prefer JVM, command line interfaces, UNIX, and LaTeX. > > I guess I'm extra sensitive about the Xamarin style Java/JVM/Dalvik > bashing, because I perceive it as a threat to my intellectual career > interests and a threat to be forced to conform to the more entry level mass > market technologies. >
When software developers that use product X claim some sort of intellectual superiority over software developers who use product Y, all I can think is that they've never heard of the People's Front of Judea. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/iOO-uhprwj0J. 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.
