Ten years ago even startups were largely Java-only when I looked (at least here in London). Five years ago nowhere was advertising pure-Scala/Haskell/OCaml/F# jobs at all. I heard about OCaml at Facebook from friends working there before the big public announcements about it. It's hard to separate general trends from my own trajectory of course.
> Is it? I've been a professional developer for 20 years and while I agree that productivity has gone up considerably (maybe 2-3x) it can be attributed nearly entirely to automated tests and GCs.
I think productivity is noticeably higher than even five years ago, when we already had GC and widespread testing.
> Is it? I've been a professional developer for 20 years and while I agree that productivity has gone up considerably (maybe 2-3x) it can be attributed nearly entirely to automated tests and GCs.
I think productivity is noticeably higher than even five years ago, when we already had GC and widespread testing.