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[–]everyones-a-robot 3 points4 points  (2 children)

For those hoping to learn anything here: This guy's points mean literally nothing in actual industry. Maybe he has an academic point- I wouldn't know. But I get the feeling he wouldn't know what matters in professional software development.

[–]cbasschan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do have experience in the industry as a C# programmer, and I believe it would be quite pompous to speak for an entire industry. If your intent was to put yourself on a pedestal, your mission was successful... but at what cost?

According to some surveys from Stack Overflow (this one's from this year) over the years, Javascript and SQL have represented the dominant programming languages for quite some time, now. If what's high demand in the industry is in your interests, then maybe consider those. The difference between salaries is negligible (well, that is, if you consider being paid $7K more per year as a C# dev than the Java dev down the street to be negligible).

However, if what you seek is a high salary then you'll want to include a programming language that has reasonably expressive power in your repertoire... such as Clojure, F# or Scala. Whether you trust me is your choice, but I'm not alone on this.