Well theres always "something big" in the market when you're just out of college. In the early 90s the big thing was Windows development. Most jobs revolved around your mastery of WIN16 and WIN32 APIs and MFC and such. Also you needed to know C and C++. Not knowing this meant that most cool companies would pass you up.
These days the platforms we are programming for are AWS and Azure. That's the "computer" we're developing for. And they speak the language of the web. Mobile was an option for a while but the emphasis to make apps super cheap limited the amount of money behind these platforms and the Android vs IOS conundrum is lately being solved with React Native and other such Javascript technology.
So yeah.. The web is the big thing for now.
Data science is an alternative, and related Big Data backend as well. But its all for the same platform: AWS or Azure.
Even OS development is down compared to the 80s and 90s where "new OSes" where vying for people's attention. Nothing is really new these days.. just Windows vs Unix variants.
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Well theres always "something big" in the market when you're just out of college. In the early 90s the big thing was Windows development. Most jobs revolved around your mastery of WIN16 and WIN32 APIs and MFC and such. Also you needed to know C and C++. Not knowing this meant that most cool companies would pass you up.
These days the platforms we are programming for are AWS and Azure. That's the "computer" we're developing for. And they speak the language of the web. Mobile was an option for a while but the emphasis to make apps super cheap limited the amount of money behind these platforms and the Android vs IOS conundrum is lately being solved with React Native and other such Javascript technology.
So yeah.. The web is the big thing for now.
Data science is an alternative, and related Big Data backend as well. But its all for the same platform: AWS or Azure.
Even OS development is down compared to the 80s and 90s where "new OSes" where vying for people's attention. Nothing is really new these days.. just Windows vs Unix variants.