Ask HN: What do you regret you didn't know when programming for iOS or Android?

Re:Ask HN: What do you regret you didn't know when programmi... by rowathray on Sunday January 26, 2020 @11:48AM (#22153034)

On the iOS side, I regret not knowing how horrible Xcode is and how horrible Apple's documentation is. On the Android side, I regret not realizing that no matter what kind of slick new well documented APIs Google releases we will all be writing code for Android 4.4 for the rest of our lives. Also, I wish I knew mobile developers are some of the lowest paid developers other than game industry peons.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you regret you didn't know when programmi... by vlozko on Sunday January 26, 2020 @03:19PM (#22154471)

> Also, I wish I knew mobile developers are some of the lowest paid developers other than game industry peons. I wish I can tell you you were wrong here but I only have anecdotal evidence. Maybe you’re stuck in a company that’s taking advantage of you with a low salary?

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Re:Ask HN: What do you regret you didn't know when programmi... by FeistyOtter on Sunday January 26, 2020 @12:50PM (#22153454)

I have recently looked at surveys in my country and mobile developers are one of the most paid programmers out there, especially the ones experienced with Swift. What does cause the low pay in your country? Logically the sector is ever expanding and there is always demand for hires with any experience.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you regret you didn't know when programmi... by blackrock on Sunday January 26, 2020 @03:02PM (#22154364)

> I wish I knew mobile developers are some of the lowest paid developers other than game industry peons.

Everything is relative of course, but can you back up your claim with some numbers?

Where do you live? What salaries and compensation packages are you seeing?

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Re:Ask HN: What do you regret you didn't know when programmi... by rowathray on Sunday January 26, 2020 @04:28PM (#22154917)

https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/09/05/developer-salaries-in-...

Well, ok, I guess it's not that grim. Still, it's a pretty crappy job.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you regret you didn't know when programmi... by ta32627888 on Sunday January 26, 2020 @06:45PM (#22155706)

> The specific technologies that developers use also impact salary. This year, the technologies most associated with high salary include Go, Scala, Redis, and React.

Surprised me seeing Scala in there, thought it was basically dead now. My last experience with seeing it in a codebase and using (or trying to use) SBT, I was kind of hoping it was.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you regret you didn't know when programmi... by blackrock on Monday January 27, 2020 @02:38AM (#22157521)

If you had your choice, would you do something else? Like being in finance or becoming a dentist?

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Re:Ask HN: What do you regret you didn't know when programmi... by alkibiades on Sunday January 26, 2020 @01:09PM (#22153571)

as a mobile dev at the FANG companies, were paid the same as other engineers. in fact, some are paid more because of the smaller talent pool

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Re:Ask HN: What do you regret you didn't know when programmi... by unnouinceput on Sunday January 26, 2020 @01:02PM (#22153532)

this applies to web developers as well. too many devs on both web and mobile, so salaries are lower then rest of IT technologies. usually a web/mobile dev needs to know a lot more to make it on the same par, at which point you can argue is a full stack one anyway.

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