what the best language for web contracts

[chewie171]

im coming to end of a java contract, and am wondering whether its worth learning c#/.net (im lucky enough to be taking a little break for a few months) ?

what are the in demand languages for contracting in your opinion?

[Diestl]

im coming to end of a java contract, and am wondering whether its worth learning c#/.net (im lucky enough to be taking a little break for a few months) ?

what are the in demand languages for contracting in your opinion?

If you mean server side then C#, VB.NET, Java and Ruby/Perl/Python.

[BrilloPad]

what are the in demand languages for contracting in your opinion?

are there any while the credit crunch is on?

[chewie171]

There seems to be plenty of contracts about to me, maybe i'm wrong.

[youwhut]

C# and VB.NET have blue and pink packaging respectively.

[ratewhore]

Surely it depends what country you're in?

IGMC

[AlfredJPruffock]

Html ?

[PAH]

C# vacancies massively outnumber VB.net ones.

So get into VB.net if you want something niche and therefore commanding a higher rate.

Better still avoid .net and stick with the java variants.

[lambrini_socialist]

C# vacancies massively outnumber VB.net ones.

So get into VB.net if you want something niche and therefore commanding a higher rate.

Better still avoid .net and stick with the java variants.

poor advice. in my experience, most folks doing .net hiring (perhaps unfairly) assume that C# coders will have no problem turning their hand to VB.NET, whereas being "just" a VB.NET coder is like a flashing neon sign over your head saying "cowboy". i once went to an interview to find that an agent had actually removed VB.NET from my CV because the manager was so heavily biased towards the curly-braced languages and VB.NET would count as a negative. (stupid, i know)

better still, avoid the java variants and stick with MUMPS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS

[KathyWoolfe]

C# vacancies massively outnumber VB.net ones.

So get into VB.net if you want something niche and therefore commanding a higher rate.

Better still avoid .net and stick with the java variants.

Isn't that because .NET is your market?