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Anecdotally, people writing in relatively niche languages (the ones that are generally available as single-semester electives if at all) are still doing all right since the talent pool is quite small and the pool of companies using those niche languages is similarly limited (but they frequently need another body). Specialization is like the only thing you can use to differentiate yourself, at this point, so it pays to have something weird on your resume to separate you from the 5000th Java/Python candidate. As a person who reviews resumes and interviews candidates, I have a significant bias for people who do that since it demonstrates the quality I actually want (curiosity) rather than the one on the job listing (X years of experience in Y).
what are some examples of such languages
Any functional or logical language: Clojure, Scheme, Lisp, Haskell, Prolog, ...
To a lesser degree C and C++, plenty of old talent but not a lot of young one.
Functional languages like Scala, Haskell, and Lisp dialects are prominent in some industries. Scala is especially workable since it runs on the JVM so there are plenty of Java shops with a chunk of Scala that needs maintaining. Haskell is a little worse on pay since it's a very enthusiast-driven language, so people will take a hit on pay to write the language they like. Most of the jobs are also in crypto and other evil shit, so it's kind of depressing when the market is otherwise cold.
Rust is still in this category, though it's in a hype cycle right now so the market can be weird. Modern PHP is having something of a renaissance, so if you don't still write the ancient garbage version then you can get into some neat spaces.
I also imagine knowing how to write modern C++ will probably get you quite far, considering how much of the industry still writes the C++ I learned in high school.
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I interviewed for(and got offered but didn't accept because the compensation wasn't worth moving from my cushy C#/typescript job) a PHP role a couple weeks ago, which I didn't think anyone used any more and they certainly don't teach in 99% of uni courses, I only had experience with it from personal project before even uni, terrible language btw don't recommend
Isn't like 80% of the web php?
probably still quite high cause of things built on it like WordPress
When I said 'which I didn't think anyone used any more' I meant for starting new projects rather than maintaining legacy stuff
Fucking a php is old now ๐ต๐ do you think C is in this category too?
Nah C is too ubiquitous in lower level/high performance stuff to be going anywhere soon
I think my great grandma used C at work. /s
I mean definitely fair enough. In a field where people go into it cause they just wanna make money and gain prestige as opposed to actually enjoy and be interested in it I can imagine something like that is a diamond in the rough.