On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Ed Leafe <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 11, 2010, at 4:42 PM, Steve Ellenoff wrote: > >> Surely there's no shortage of .NET jobs, but is the same true of >> Python? Can Ed or someone else chime in? > > There are tons of .Net jobs, just like 10 years ago there were tons of > VB jobs. And like then, you'll be competing with a bunch of cut-rate n00bs > who read a book or two and are now ".Net developers". > > At Rackspace, we're hiring Python and Ruby devs all the time, and > can't seem to find enough. Next week at PyCon there will be lots of companies > recruiting (including Rackspace!), because there just aren't enough good > Python devs to fill all the demand. > > And there's this company that hired the creator of Python, as well as > several of the top contributors to the language - Google or something like > that? ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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