Coders, Devs, language earnings, poll report

Which pays the most? What is most sought?

[tangor]

Wake me up before you go Go: Devs say they'll learn Google-backed lang next. Plus: Perl pays best, Java still in demand
And 2 in 5 programmers gripe they are underpaid

[theregister.co.uk...]

Quick overview of dollars and sense. :)

Languages desired, payouts, what big biz wants and yet non-college coders are finding work (that pays!) in small to mid-size.

What's the next big thing? What has been around forever and pays more than all the rest?

Fun stuff!

[lammert]

What triggered me most is that Perl developers earn the most. Not long ago I read a Dutch news article that developers at booking.com think their future is poisoned because their company's site is written in Perl. Reading this comparison of average payouts between different languages puts that in another perspective.

[Dimitri]

Big, and old companies, are facing the problem that they end using plenty of different languages, because of legacy reasons. This is making things harder. Same, when they acquire other companies, which are using different development process and languages.

Some recent languages are favored because of their easy of use, but since new languages appear all the time, what do you do? You keep switch, and re-re-writing your framework.

Personally, I am old school, I learned programming in C/C++ , and I am sticking with it. It's easy in PHP to write your own extensions in C/C++, so "for my usage" it's the perfect combo.