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Re:Today’s Top Tech Skills by nogabebop23 on Sunday November 24, 2019 @03:25PM (#21623099)
Is it really your experience that node was ever a contender? In what context or application? Also enterprise is almost all windows on the client and on the server still has lots of traction; I don't see why .net needs platform neutrality to take a big piece of this.

I find the numbers reported here pretty flawed; ".net" is down while "C#" is up about the same amount. I realize this data is based on keywords, so maybe this just means clueless HR posts are finally stoping the practice of saying "must have .net, C# and ASP.NET"

Stating "SQL" is the top skill is also pretty pointless; I've rarely met a developer who will say "I don't know SQL" because most think this means "can write simple SELECT statment", which a lot of the time is enough.

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Re:Today’s Top Tech Skills by murukesh_s on Sunday November 24, 2019 @09:31PM (#21624981)
Yes it was. That's why IBM, Microsoft etc rushed to adopt or sponsor Node.js. IBM acquired strongloop a NodeJs based enterprise framework. Microsoft extended their Chakra engine to support NodeJs but its still work in progress shows it lost steam..

Enterprises do not work with a brilliant language runtime, they need large ecosystem support from large vendors (read enteripse tools) and large availability of workforce, both of which are lacking in NodeJs esp. compared to Java. It's unfortunate as Typescript have now elevated NodeJs to a mature package and should have made stronger in roads into enterprises.

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