I taught myself both StandardML and OCaml 20+ years ago as hobby. But I'd never advertise myself as an OCaml programmer. Yes, the syntax is relatively easy to learn. But when I look at what Jane St etc have created for libs, the tooling, etc.
Ok but the amount of education that is needed to join Jane St is certainly very large, but acquiring the language itself is probably a very tiny amount of that.
That's exactly why I'm disagreeing: there is much more to know and to learn than the syntax and semantic of a programming language to do a good job, that's why when I consider hiring I'm not insisting too much about previous familiarity with a given language; that's the easy part.
yeah i think we broadly agree. Language syntax is the frankly lowest hurdle. Or should be. Knowledge of ecosystem and best practices and engineering wisdom is much more important.
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I taught myself both StandardML and OCaml 20+ years ago as hobby. But I'd never advertise myself as an OCaml programmer. Yes, the syntax is relatively easy to learn. But when I look at what Jane St etc have created for libs, the tooling, etc.
C'mon, there's more there than 2 weeks.
Ok but the amount of education that is needed to join Jane St is certainly very large, but acquiring the language itself is probably a very tiny amount of that. That's exactly why I'm disagreeing: there is much more to know and to learn than the syntax and semantic of a programming language to do a good job, that's why when I consider hiring I'm not insisting too much about previous familiarity with a given language; that's the easy part.
yeah i think we broadly agree. Language syntax is the frankly lowest hurdle. Or should be. Knowledge of ecosystem and best practices and engineering wisdom is much more important.