On Tue, 21 Sep 2021 13:50:52 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'On top of this 50% of employers surveyed stated they are increasing hires this year. The jobs are out there. The difficulty for companies is, as 92% of managers report, finding enough talent and hanging onto existing talent in the face of fierce competition.'
And, as a counterpoint to that, how about the cluelessness of one reader comment on this article <https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/14/java_17/> on the question of whether Kotlin might not be a better bet than Java: Outside of the niche of Android-centric development, the two are not interchangeable. This is particularly the case if you work for an organisation that takes risk and liability seriously, where signing up to run your business on a language entirely owned and run for-profit by a fairly opaque, minor Czech IDE developer is really not the smartest of ideas. The second Google decide to move onto yet another language for Android there's a serious risk the whole ecosystem dies off. As Wolfgang Pauli said, “That’s not right; it’s not even wrong”. Where do you start countering the unspoken (and wrong) assumptions in that? It’s all predicated on the completely mistaken idea that an open-source product can be “owned” by some person or company, in the same sense that a proprietary one can.