On Thursday, 29 March 2018 at 16:10:55 UTC, Johannes Loher wrote:
> Am 29.03.2018 um 14:54 schrieb Bienlein:
>> On Monday, 26 March 2018 at 17:49:18 UTC, bauss wrote:
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>> Eventually they will listen to you for about half a minute why you like D. But in the end they will prefer someone with some working experience with Kotlin or Scala.
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> I have to say, my experience was totally different. I recently had quite many job interviews for jobs in which I would mainly be using Java/C#. Because I like D very much, obviously the topic came up in every single interview. Most of the time, I was encouraged to solve the simple programming tasks they gave me in D. I think they were actually quite impressed, both by D itself and the fact that I am interested in such a "niche" language. I believe showing that you are enthusiatic about such things can help you with getting jobs much more than some experience in a language which is "closer" to the language they mainly use.
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> Also I believe that D shares a lot of characteristics with Java and C#, in particular when you do OOP with D. I think you could make a case for the statement, that D is closer to Java than it is to C.

I landed a previous job using .NET about two years ago, because of some D code I had written, so for me the experience is different too.

On Thursday, 29 March 2018 at 16:10:55 UTC, Johannes Loher wrote:

> I have to say, my experience was totally different. I recently had quite many job interviews for jobs in which I would mainly be using Java/C#. Because I like D very much, obviously the topic came up in every single interview. Most of the time, I was encouraged to solve the simple programming tasks they gave me in D. I think they were actually quite impressed, both by D itself and the fact that I am interested in such a "niche" language. I believe showing that you are enthusiatic about such things can help you with getting jobs much more than some experience in a language which is "closer" to the language they mainly use.

Yes, I beliebe that enthusiasm and passion is something people are sometimes looking for at job interviews. In my last job interview I showed some passion about concurrent programming and I think they like that, that is the passion. Whether it is about concurrent programming or D might not be that important.

>I landed a previous job using .NET about two years ago, because of some D code I >had written, so for me the experience is different too.

This is interesting. Maybe I write a little framwork or something in Kotlin and file it on github. Then I have something to show in any case. And from then on I can just play with D ;-)

On Saturday, 31 March 2018 at 13:53:30 UTC, Bienlein wrote:
> This is interesting. Maybe I write a little framwork or something in Kotlin and file it on github. Then I have something to show in any case. And from then on I can just play with D ;-)

Yep, that's pretty much what I did. I had some projects on Github along with some .NET code and they were more interested in my D code than my .NET code.

On Thursday, 29 March 2018 at 13:39:25 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On 3/26/18 11:52 AM, Jean-Louis Leroy wrote:
>> ....as a "programming languages you should learn now" - albeit somewhat dismissively ;-)
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>> https://www.infoworld.com/article/3263395/application-development/the-programming-languages-you-should-learn-now.html
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> "If you’re programming in C or C++, you’re doing embedded stuff, drivers, or low-level stuff—or you’re just old"
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> Ouch! Also, destroys any credibility of the author. Moving on...

Yes, this was an inane article... It also included the horrible advice:

"Languages you should not learn today
[...]

Java
If you’re not a seasoned Java developer or planning to work for a body shop like Wipro or Infosys, by the time you don’t suck in Java your friends will have run rings around you careerwise in JavaScript as “full-stack developers.”"

Er, a whole lot of backend code is not written in Javascript, and for good reason. Java is near the top of of the heap as far as hiring goes, and Java developers generally command a better salary than front-end developers. Java is also pretty good to work with today, Java 8 added a lot of nice functional features.

It's insane that Swift wasn't mentioned anywhere in the article. It also left out some interesting, influential languages like Haskell, Julia, Nim, Dart, Typescript and Clojure. I hope not too many folks are basing decisions on that tripe.