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I'm risking a lot here, but... Javascript.
Not because I think it's an interesting language, but because of the implications. If I was learning Javascript well enough to become proficient, that would mean I was doing web programming, which means my job security and ability to find another were that much greater.
My current skill set centers around C++/C#/C, Windows desktop, and process control applications. COBOL programmers have a higher success rate at finding jobs than that.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Prolog... no reason, just for fun...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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F# is pretty awesome. It's a functional-first language with access to all the .NET APIs you know and love. It's also just a really good language. Compared to C#, it makes lots of common and useful things easy to code (collection literals, record types, discriminated unions), and has some particularly powerful and interesting advanced features (computation expressions, type providers).
There are lots of other interesting languages (Swift, Rust, and Clojure are high on my list as well), but especially if you're comfortable in the .NET/Visual Studio world, F# is really outstanding.
(End fanboigasm)
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Waiting for the-language-that-is-to-succeed-C# .
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I think that something that is well accepted in robotics circles might be useful. It seems to me that there will be a demand for folks that can read, understand, add-to, and clean up half-baked Python and C++ as more and more machines enter the workforce. There will, it seems to me, be a real demand to fix some legacy boggles.
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Piet.
I have a soft spot for esoteric languages and the novelty of Piet really calls to me.
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Why do things like that never happen to me? oh.. right... I don't have a car.
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Sheep are such stupid animals that they can't think and walk at the same time. Give them any decision (e.g. left or right of the car) and they just stand still.
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Israeli archeologists dig up liquor bottles of WWI British troops
Quote: Excavation director Ron Toueg says uniform buttons, belt buckles and riding equipment were found near the city of Ramle in addition to the bottles of gin, whiskey and wine.
The article in Hebrew also shows pictures of 100 year old bottles of Gordon's Gin.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Nagy can't answer right at this moment. He's on his way to Israel with a shovel and a 10 gallon can of tonic. 
Hope it's "Finders keepers!" 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Quote: He said it offered a glimpse into "the everyday life and leisure of the soldiers."
Of the soldiers?
Of the snooty, elitist officers, more like.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Just had a very nice little instruction from the sat nav: "In three quarters of a mile, turn slightly right"
Not "turn right" or "stay to the right", but "slightly right". Not bad for a T junction...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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it's trying not to be too political?
Sin tack
the any key okay
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That's the English version (what was I saying about meiosis?)
The US version says "JEEZE, BUDDY! YOU ONLY GOT THREE-FOURTHS OF A MILE BEFORE YOU GOTTA HANG A HARD RIGHT!!!"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Ah, but is that a cursive T junction? 
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Well, Sans Serif...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: "In three quarters of a mile, turn slightly right"
I had a similar one the other day: "In a half mile, go straight."
On the other hand, you have different fingers. - Steven Wright
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While touring in Spain we were cruising through a motorway junction near Bilbao where it is was 3 levels deep when the sat nav (sygic) insisted we turn right, we were on the top level going straight through. sat nav does not seem to deal well with verticals 
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Lots of issues with this, but I guess that's people for you.
Look at the usage by country and see how large India is yet look at the self-reported ethnicity, very few South Asians. I bet the vast majority of site users are South Asian, however they are not the ones most likely to take the survey, it is only the people who answer the questions who will take the survey and everyone else just wants their code, urgent.
Look at the years of experience...very few have 15-20 years experience but 17% have 20 years. Why so few with 19 years but so many with 20? What happened 20 years ago? The people who are relatively new (1-5) are probably answering honestly whereas everyone else is self-reporting 20+ years due to some form of internal bias toward how they view themselves in terms of experience.
Look at the most common languages...across all types (web, desktop, devops and data) javascript is the most common. What js does a desktop developer do? Again people are simply incorrectly self-reporting what they do.
It's not so much a survey as to how the community is, more how the community wants to be.
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: Look at the years of experience...very few have 15-20 years experience but 17% have 20 years. Why so few with 19 years but so many with 20? What happened 20 years ago? The people who are relatively new (1-5) are probably answering honestly whereas everyone else is self-reporting 20+ years due to some form of internal bias toward how they view themselves in terms of experience.
Quick look but ~9% have 15-20 and 17% have 20+. I think the + is the key here, as it is open ended (to a degree, factoring in life expectancy and how long development as a practice has existed).
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majority of developers said they were underpaid
FMD, what an insight!!! A majority of people always think that, from the unemployed through to fat-cat directors.
Only 13.1% of developers are actively looking for a job
Given that most of the respondants are already employed meants 13% if they are 'attively looking' really means they are very disatistfied, that's actually quite a high number, it's really not an "only."
But 75.2% of developers are interested in hearing about new job opportunities
Again everybody doesn't mind 'hearing about' new opportunites, the cleaner wants to know, the boss is interested too, heck even most priests will listen for new gigs - again completely normal, human nature even.
after that stopped looking.
How can 'experts' publish such drivel, clearly these people are way overpaid.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Lopatir wrote: How can 'experts' publish such drivel,
I think you are probably taking it way too seriously. Definitely more serious than I did. It's just stats from a survey they took, I don't think they were trying to draw scientific conclusions or prove the earth is flat with this.
Lopatir wrote: But 75.2% of developers are interested in hearing about new job opportunities
It is an interesting stat to me because I would have expected it to be higher, as you said.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: Lopatir wrote: But 75.2% of developers are interested in hearing about new job opportunities
It is an interesting stat to me because I would have expected it to be higher, as you said.
Maybe the other 24.8% worried the bas was watching their replies 
Sin tack
the any key okay
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