I was reading Ruby ng and I stumbled in this. Basically the article says that in Chicago there are far less Ruby programmers than the industry requires. Which basically make it rather easy to get a job (if you know Ruby). Companies are even trying to relocate people and to teach Java/.Net developers Ruby (well, scout the good ones and teach them Ruby: bad developers would remain bad, perhaps in freedom languages they would look even worse by comparison).
This is happening right now in Chicago. But I continuously hear about such stories: knowing less widespread and niche technologies is a huge competitive advantage, even for newcomers. On the other hand, competing with thousands of developers of more mainstream languages is much harder and often leads to less interesting jobs.
This is happening right now in Chicago. But I continuously hear about such stories: knowing less widespread and niche technologies is a huge competitive advantage, even for newcomers. On the other hand, competing with thousands of developers of more mainstream languages is much harder and often leads to less interesting jobs.
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