Yes it's another one of those posts.
I am at a crossroads, I want to call myself full stack in the enterprise world so that the roles that I frequently land can benifits from a language that they actually use.
I know some cpp and rust but I've never seen any of this used in companies that I have worked for in the enterprise space, where tried and true is king.
So one of the ways I could learn Java in a scoped way would be through web assembly. I think that's an area of Java that is a little neiche but intersts me.
I know you can't answer for me but I like to write down my thoughts.
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I believe that gone are the days when we use to refer people as "java developer" or "python developer". Now, with the continuously ever-growing universe of technology one must be ready to learn and work on any new framework/language in a week or two to cope with the fast-paced industry environment.
But again, it totally depends on one's skills and the need of company one is employed with. Some Companies still rely on experts in a particular domain/tech. So, if you think learning java will give you an edge over others then you should probably learn it. And otherwise also, Learning a new thing never hurts if you can maintain a balance between learning the new skill and your current job.
All the best π
The truth is the edge will not be awarded me for learning Java in my current position no. Nor am I really interested in oop, however In all of my enterprise jobs, Java has been a factor. So is it reasonable to assume that the trend will continue for the foreseeable future, who's to say. In truth I probably just want to do something weird with Java such as make it run in the browser... Again πΉ
Learn Kotlin instead then. It's better than Java and you can run it in the browser just fine βΊοΈ And you can even mix it with Java if you really have to to.
I'm am interested in kotlin for a few reasons come to think of it. Im comfortable in typescript which has a similar syntax. Kotlin upon last inspection had a js transpiler, what I'm hoping it can do now is compile to webassembly. Let the reaserch begin.
Kotlins native compiler is based on llvm so that's a green light. π₯¦
Yep, Kotlin can transpile to JS or WASM, can run on mobile and native. And when you start counting with graalvm.org/ the interoperation with other languages (Python, C, JS, ...) through Truffle gives you real superpowers. They are edge tech. now but I believe it's worth exploring. You can always fallback to just Kotlin on backend and mobile where is it pretty mature.