The really ironic thing about this industry is you can use a high level language and make an unholy amount of money.
And you also have a bunch of low-level embedded engineers barely making 60K or so.
I don't really care about how a computer works, like most of us probably don't care how a car works. We just know it gets us to where we need to be.
Python, can get you a working rest API in 10 loc. Try that in C.
The original sin of Python ( arguably JavaScript as well) is these languages were never meant to scale to large code bases. VS Code and other IDEs use various tricks to help, but it gets weird.
>"The really ironic thing about this industry is you can use a high level language and make an unholy amount of money.
And you also have a bunch of low-level embedded engineers barely making 60K or so."
What industry? I know low level stuff but do not get hung up in it. I run my own company and develop enterprise grade products for clients. I make well above 60k
Well if your running your own business you'll definitely make more than an IC.
In my experience it's much easier to write Python or JavaScript at a professional level vs C or another more difficult language.
I think it's calmed down, but for a while Ruby was hot and you had 300k TC jobs demanding it.
The highest paying job I've had so far had us using Python. Fintech loves Python. Maybe one day I'll get a job at Jane Street.
Python's not fun in a larger code base though...
Edit: I'm actually a bit intrigued as to what you consider professional programming. As far as I'm concerned if I write code and I get a paycheck that's professional.
And you also have a bunch of low-level embedded engineers barely making 60K or so.
I don't really care about how a computer works, like most of us probably don't care how a car works. We just know it gets us to where we need to be.
Python, can get you a working rest API in 10 loc. Try that in C.
The original sin of Python ( arguably JavaScript as well) is these languages were never meant to scale to large code bases. VS Code and other IDEs use various tricks to help, but it gets weird.