On: So you're using a weird language

[scarface74]

20 years ago, Java was already becoming pretty big in the enterprise. Today there are plenty of Java jobs from your bog standard banks and insurance companies all the way up to the BigTech companies. The biggest ponds don’t have fish using Erlang.

BTW, what languages do you think all of those BigTech companies that pay well are using?

I just keep bringing up C# because that’s the language I have the most experience with. But substitute $any popular language.

[hwntw → scarface74]

Erlang might be slightly more obscure, but there are plenty of big household names using the language - Klarna, Bet365, and William Hill are all household names. And that's excluding the obvious cases of Ericsson or WhatsApp.

[scarface74 → hwntw]

Except for WhatsApp, from what I can find on Levels, all of the companies you named pay on the low end of even enterprise dev salaries.

[wiseowise → scarface74]

Certainly not C#, lol.

Even OCamls share would be bigger within big tech, thanks to Meta.

[scarface74 → wiseowise]

I work in BigTech now. In the last two years I’ve done projects in C#, Java, Go, Python and Typescript…

[pharmakom → wiseowise]

C# is much bigger then OCaml. Even F# is bigger than OCaml!

(and I say this as a big fan of OCaml)

[wiseowise → pharmakom]

> within big tech

[pharmakom → wiseowise]

I saw that and C# is still bigger, largely due to Microsoft.