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Technical careers specialist Dice dove into job posting data to chart the salaries associated with popular programming languages, finding that Microsoft's TypeScript fares well in both accounts.

 

The job data comes from Burning Glass, which provides real-time job market analytics.

 

Dice combed through the data to determine which programming languages are

most in-demand and

how much they pay

 

Those are two vital questions as technologists and developers everywhere decide which skills to learn next.

 

See the attached photograph. TypeScript pays fairly well (fifth), but really shines in projected 10-year growth, where an astounding predicted rate of 60 percent dwarfs all other languages.

 

Dice opined more about TypeScript specifically. "It's worth calling out TypeScript here. Technically, it's a superset of the ultra-popular and well-established JavaScript, which means that whatever you code in it is transpiled to JavaScript. That being said, many programming-language rankings (such as RedMonk) treat it as a full programming language. However you define it, it's clear that the language is on a strong growth trajectory, paired with a solid median salary. If you're looking for a new programming language to learn, keep an eye on it."

 

read the whole report here: https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2021/04/01/typescript-csharp.aspx

 

For a quickstart to Typescript for tjose of you know who know javascript look here --> https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/typescript-in-5-minutes.html

 

• learn how a relational database works (this is always useful)
• learn how HTTP works in general
• learn how to debug code in one language (it's pretty much the same in others, you can recycle most of the knowledge)
• be familiar with the command line
• know how to find code (either using your IDE or grep on the command line)
• knowing the basics of regular expressions will get you far (also to find code in the previous point)
• know how to find solutions using a search engine
• know how to operate git (I would say any source control but git is the de facto standard so you might as well start with that)
• ask questions, especially if you think they're not worth being asked
• learn how timezones work (not kidding, lots of devs are still fuzzy on these)
• learn how unicode and utf-8 work (same reason for timezones)
• have a general idea of how caching (CPU, in memory, disk, HTTP) works as a concept

 

more at https://dev.to/ben/12-things-every-junior-developer-should-learn-lco

 

PHP 8 , released on November 26, 2020 is a new major version. It introduces some breaking changes, as well as lots of new features and performance improvements.

Because of the breaking changes, there's a higher chance you'll need to make some changes in your code to get it running on PHP 8. If you've kept up to date with the latest releases though, the upgrade shouldn't be too hard, since most breaking changes were deprecated before in the 7.* versions.

Besides breaking changes, PHP 8 also brings a nice set of new features such as the JIT compiler, union types, attributes, and more.

The JIT Complier :) It is the first time that PHP version has a compiler – JIT – that caches a version of your already interpreted code and generates a machine code as an output (machine code is on with 0’s and 1’s only). The “just in time” compiler promises speed improvements for complex tasks and algorithms and opens new opportunities for the PHP language to broaden its reach and applications. 

read more at https://stitcher.io/blog/new-in-php-8

ready to upgrade -> https://stitcher.io/blog/php-8-upgrade-mac