Where are all the decent C++ contracts roles gone??

[kal]

Go will be consigned to the Google dustbin alongside all the other stuff they launch and then get bored of. And Python has been "the next big thing" for a decade while failing to make serious inroads - it seems JavaScript is eating Python's niche (though why on earth anyone wants to use JS I cannot imagine)

For low-level stuff C++ is still best. But there is less and less low level stuff needed.

+1, C/C++ is going nowhere, same with Java/C#, everything else is niche (I remember when Ruby was the next big thing and was going to kill off Java, then Groovy was going to kill Java, the latest wannabe Java killer is Scala, Java is still here and Java 8 has made it better). Server side JavaScript is the next big(false) hope. I use C and Java most of the time with a sprinkling of niche languages.

[MyUserName]

I have had to resort to a permie position in C++ due to family reasons but they still use C++ contractors here. Also when I was looking I was contacted about a £600pd C++ gig in London and another one at £550pd. There are C++ gigs around if you have an investment banking background. If you don't then maybe not.

[Churchill]

I have had to resort to a permie position in C++ due to family reasons but they still use C++ contractors here. Also when I was looking I was contacted about a £600pd C++ gig in London and another one at £550pd. There are C++ gigs around if you have an investment banking background. If you don't then maybe not.

Plenty of defence work in C and C++ No Bobs allowed

[VectraMan]

I had an email for a C++ job this morning. London and £250pd. Hmmm.

Still lots of people doing C++ (PermieCo wouldn't entertain the idea of using C# or Java). Just perhaps not the people that traditionally recklessly hired lots of contractors on OTT rates (i.e. banks).

[Contreras]

Java is for girls.
Python is for mentalists that like to count the number of spaces used for an indent.

If you use a decent text editor it does the indentation for you, as any fule knows

Except that a line of code might have several different behaviours depending on the indentation used, all syntactically legal and even the most decent editor is at a loss to help with that. I'm not aware of any other language that suffers this 'feature'.

[VectraMan]

Except that a line of code might have several different behaviours depending on the indentation used, all syntactically legal and even the most decent editor is at a loss to help with that. I'm not aware of any other language that suffers this 'feature'.

Whitespace (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

[Jubber]

C# is very hard unless you tune a half step up or use a capo or barre it.

C# minor is a lovely key for the piano. Think Moonlight Sonata or the magnificent Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No.2

..... any way - what's wrong with VB?

[OwlHoot]

Except that a line of code might have several different behaviours depending on the indentation used, all syntactically legal and even the most decent editor is at a loss to help with that. I'm not aware of any other language that suffers this 'feature'.

WHS

IMHO, the python indentation thing is a massively retrograde step, harking back to punched cards and FORTRAN and COBOL, and completely wrecks what would otherwise be a pretty neat and consistent language.

[quackhandle]

You could always try freelancer.com and do someones C++ Bubble Sort homework for them for ten dollar love you long time.

qh

[kal]

You could always try freelancer.com and do someones C++ Bubble Sort homework for them for ten dollar love you long time.

qh