Yeah, every time I job hunt it’s 10x the enterprise Java opportunities (don’t really want those) versus Ruby, Go, and even native mobile. I don’t have .net in my work history but gather it’s similar for that. Between them they’re a huge percentage of all software dev jobs, writing boring bigco software for bad-for-FAANG-but-good-for-everywhere-else pay.

[edit] oh and the small/startup space is overwhelmingly Node + some front end framework + a bunch of cloud shit they probably don’t need and have mis-used and mis-configured. Take out Node, .net, and Java and hell, the next biggest segment I see is probably low-paid PHP (Wordpress mostly) work followed distantly by Ruby (mostly Rails, ugh), Python, and native mobile. Go, Rust, Haskell, Clojure, all that, rare as can be.

Agreed. I personally love the "hot" tech, but anyone claiming there are more jobs for those skills than the tried & trued is being disingenuous

I think it depends on where you want to work. If you check out the YC job boards, they want TypeScript, Go, and GraphQL.

I've found in general the places that use Java don't look for a Java developer. Its like they just assume you can pick it up. You might see things like knowledge of OOP, SQL, etc. on the job listing. For example, lots of large companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Twitter, Netflix, etc. have a ton of Java, but their job descriptions don't really mention it.

On the other hand, if a place needs Typescript, or GO, they'll mention it.

I think job descriptions are just marketing materials for developers at a lot of places. Advertising your COBOL just gets you people that want to make more COBOL.

Every job I take, whatever the oldest crappiest technology mentioned in the footnotes is, ends up being 90% of my job.

Sure. If I want to only work with the hot tech then yes, my choices are limited to companies using hot tech. But the reality is that the vast majority of development jobs are using the old standbys.

True, most transitions won’t be permanent but it really sucks to miss the ones that are (Angular and React eating everything).