It doesn’t help that we’ve saturated the pool of programmers with JS and Python developers who are trained primarily to glue libraries together instead of actually writing code that isn’t third party library glue. That’s not a common job for C++ developers (and when it is, the gluing process is a bit more involved). This makes it pretty hard to satisfy our hiring needs with a huge number of the people who entered programming seeking fame and fortune with the data science and web dev waves. A lot of people aren’t good enough to pick up more complex and involved systems.
I’ve noticed that it’s not so bad to get someone proficient in Java or C# or Fortran to pick up C++, so hiring people from those backgrounds helps us fill the C++ developer roles. The python and JS devs: not so much.
I’ve noticed that it’s not so bad to get someone proficient in Java or C# or Fortran to pick up C++, so hiring people from those backgrounds helps us fill the C++ developer roles. The python and JS devs: not so much.