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Re:The Awk Programming Language (1988) [pdf] by adamc on Thursday May 24, 2018 @01:11PM (#17146100)
I agree with the thrust of your comment but not the specifics. There are still a ton of Java and JavaScript (not necessarily React) jobs out there in the "bottom 90%".

And I don't think "high-profile" people talking has much effect. Paul Graham talked up lisp for a while, and I was certainly interested (I like lisps), but... there are still precious few jobs that use Lisp. Most people learn technologies that they either need currently or are in use in jobs they know of and might conceivably get.

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Re:The Awk Programming Language (1988) [pdf] by busterarm on Thursday May 24, 2018 @03:46PM (#17147607)
Even at shops just hiring for Java or JavaScript, I don't think knowing them is a career advantage. They don't make you more hirable than you would be otherwise. That's really the only reason I left those out.

Paul Graham, while a thought-leader of sorts, isn't generally thought of as someone working at either the edge of tech or in large-scale systems. That's why nobody wants to chase the tech he's using vs what Google/Facebook/etc are.

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