Originally posted by nomadd
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Never in my experience.
My Company Bank Account has been thanking James Gosling for twenty years or so now.
My Company Bank Account has been thanking James Gosling for twenty years or so now.
Recently, I have been tempted to look at Apple's Swift, because already learnt and wrote an Android app several years ago. I think Swift is still in its Playground phase though. It is fine if you want mobile native development or contract in that space.
I think Java will be here in 10 years from now and be relevant if Oracle can sort sheer spectrum of future infrastructure. I expect huge demands on RAM memory from huge 1TB plus Virtual Machine memory and the Internet of Things 128MB. The genius is in the Garbage Collector. I remember writing C/C++ program and having to rely on pointers and those fabulous core dumps! There is obviously people over engineering on multi-core and the AZUL chip will have get 1000 no doubt short, but which programming language and platforms can fully utilise them today. Memory, memory, memory and working out to distribute it across multiple machines and CPU processes will be important still in 10 years.
Incidentally, on Thursday I accepted a job offer. I was down my usual last contract rate by £20 per day. Additionally, I will have to drive 50 miles or so there and back, but *tulip* it X-mas is coming, yo. I must feed my family! I could've waited for potential F2F interviews that would have paid allegedly £100 per day more than my usual day rate and in my *tulip* home town, but in the end, I decided to jump on the first reasonable, rate wise, technology modern, and decent client that made the contract offer.
There must be some kind of queuing system out in the economy. My new client wanted definitely experience and technology know-how, so this was still very important to assert in my interviews. I hope you all get something very soon, before Deutsche and Commerzebank both fall off over the edge of the Earth.
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