Ask HN: How do I analyse the current demand for a language?

[mettamage]

I've checked WhoIsHiring and LinkedIn, but the data isn't sharp enough. I'm rusty in all my languages and wouldn't pass interviews right now, except for data structures and algorithms in JS. I'm not an American and European companies rarely use that interview style.

I once did a booking.com assignment that took me too long to complete, eventhough I understood it. If I immersed myself in Java for a month, it wouldn't have been an issue.

I can choose any major popular language I want to focus on. Assuming my experience is about equal in all major popular programming languages, how would you go about analyzing the current demand?

[mettamage]

Perhaps Github is a good source [1]? TIOBe says something else [2].

[1] https://github.blog/2023-11-08-the-state-of-open-source-and-...

[2] https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

[sk11001 → mettamage]

Nobody should use TIOBE for anything ever. Except maybe for making jokes.

As one example, it ranks Typescript lower than languages like VBScript and FoxPro which have been dead for many years. The worst kind of garbage information is the kind that pretends to be scientific ("look, we have an index with a formula"). Nobody with a brain can look at this and claim that it's useful for anything, it's indefensible.

[verdverm → mettamage]

Stack Overflow is another source

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/