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ughcantsleep t1_itw4pdm wrote

If you only used the title you're skewing heavily towards junior and entry level positions. Most developers - particularly app or web developers - regularly work with more than one language. Data Scientists primarily develop in python or R but they aren't called "R developer".

Also Oct 2021 was the peak of tech optimism and hiring. The nasdaq index - a proxy for tech - is down 30%. Your top language - Solidity - is for crypto smart contracts; crypto companies are not hiring anymore and in fact have been laying off like crazy.

It was a nice effort but there's a ton of sampling bias that makes this chart misleading.

Edit: If you want to know what these languages are for and have a spare 16 mins here's a fun snappy youtube video.

If you have no formal cs training and you just want to start making stuff - 100% learn with python.

Also the fact that a crypto thing misleadingly made it to the top of a thing is just :chefskiss: lmfao

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sdfsefhsui t1_itwdojx wrote

> If you only used the title you're skewing heavily towards junior and entry level positions.

Junior positions making more than most senior software engineers in Europe/UK.

Nice

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corn-potage t1_iu0xf16 wrote

You don't need to be hired by a company to make money using Solidity for smart contracts - you can just build something yourself (or with some random person you met on Discord or Twitter with a food pfp) and make money. Many of those people are doing it without being tied to real life identity. That's like.. part of the big appeal of blockchains - disintermediating middlemen, companies, etc. I don't know that many companies hiring Solidity devs, although there are major companies like Microsoft or EY and such, dabbling in smart contracts and contributing to Ethereum ecosystem like with zk-proof stuff

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