<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>There is nothing special about Perl in that regard. Everybody's complaining about how hard it is to find good developers. I work for a major player in HTML5/JavaScript field, and we literally *can't* find people who grok JavaScript enough to work on the framework core. Does that mean that JavaScript is dying? Nope, marketoids are trumping about how market is growing enormously, blah blah.</div><div><br></div><div>There's also nothing special about hiring landscape in the software industry at large. From my very limited experience with it I can tell that it's about the same as in other high-tech industries. When I was working in telecom, finding really talented people was an epic problem. How did we cope? Well, instead of trying to find experienced junior level people – which is a totally ridiculous idea by the way, how would they still be junior if they're already experienced? – we used to grow them ourselves. With spectacular results I must say. I fail to see how that does not translate to the software industry.</div><div><br></div><div>Can't really say anything about PM median age, I wasn't there in its heyday. Did it ever feel like preschool around here?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Alex.</div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> "Juan J. Natera" <<a href="mailto:naterajj@gmail.com">naterajj@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Wednesday, July 31, 2013 1:36 PM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Alex Tokarev <<a href="mailto:dwalin@dwalin.ru">dwalin@dwalin.ru</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> Perl Mongers <<a href="mailto:San-Diego-pm@pm.org">San-Diego-pm@pm.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [San-Diego-pm] Is Perl finally dying? [was: Seen this?]<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
As for the graphs showing the age of Perlers based on YAPC attendance,<br>
that is a very dubious proposition at best. Attending a conference costs<br>
money, a lot of it. Who will pay for Joe the junior dev to attend just<br>
because they could? Yeah, um. Better let's send Jack the senior dev over<br>
there, maybe he'll pick up some cool idea that'd benefit the whole team,<br>
and if not he'd just have a good time with the old buddies.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div>Yeah, that's why Perl Monger meetings are full of youngsters, because they can afford local meetings. right? Except the avg age of attendees to PM meetings is IME closer to the YAPC numbers.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Finding Perl developers is a problem, as will tell you anybody that is trying to get them.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Juan<br></div></div></div></div></span></body></html>