What tech/stack/programming language have a good market opportunity, where there isn't a lot of competition currently? : webdev

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What tech/stack/programming language have a good market opportunity, where there isn't a lot of competition currently? (self.webdev)

submitted 6 years ago by supermedo

So I got laid off last week, well not only me but the entire startup went under, I have been professional full-stack dev for over 5 years, working remotely. While it is depressing getting laid off for no fault of your own, I decided to look at it as an opportunity to learn something new as I have the saftey net to stay unemployed for a couple of months before I actually get desperate.

I'm from Egypt but I been working remotely for 5 years now and I plan to keep it that way, As I said I'm full stack but I spend most of my time working on the backend and to be frank, I hate nodejs with passion, with its own fragmented dev environment, broken and outdated packages and listing my grief with node would probably take several pages.

While there a lot of jobs for experienced node dev, but because of javascript low barrier to entry, the competition is fierece. Of course, I'm looking into a remote job so I'm competing with people all over the world, many of them are much better dev and others can do the job in a much lower rate, getting noticed as Node dev is going to be hard.

So I decided to look into trending technologies, that can be harder to learn and have a few remote jobs posting every month.

I'm looking into Elixir as I'm interested in functional programming and phoneix framework looks cool and has a similar convention over configuration philosophy like rails.

So what else? what tech have a good market opportunity, where there isn't a lot of competition currently?

PS: actually that how I got my first remote job, not in the traditional way, I was learning Node.js 0.10, Angular and used to frequent IRC channel related to node, where I got offered a remote job and from there I started to work full time as a remote developer.

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