It depends on your future employer. My experience is, that showing the ability to learn and your social skills (or better: understanding business) are more important than your experience with the language. It is from my perspective easier to get people on track with the language if they are able to pair, than having a professional programmer who knows the language, but doesn't understand what business requirements are and when what solution is a fit and when and how to make appropriate tradeoffs.
I made the switch from .Net to Java, to Javascript, to Python and a bit of Go. People don't bring me mainlyinto projects because I have previous knowledge - which sometimes is also the case ;) - but because they know I am a good building block to work with.
Currently I am doing GIS which upon recently I had no clue about. But I am learning while doing the software.
That’s awesome! Yea that’s how I look at it. I know I will be able to pick up the language pretty seamlessly given an appropriate amount of time just need the employer to take that chance because I feel like some will be hesitant due to my lack of industry experience with the language. But again like you said if I can show the intangibles then they should be more likely to give an offer. Thanks man! Great advice.
It depends on your future employer. My experience is, that showing the ability to learn and your social skills (or better: understanding business) are more important than your experience with the language. It is from my perspective easier to get people on track with the language if they are able to pair, than having a professional programmer who knows the language, but doesn't understand what business requirements are and when what solution is a fit and when and how to make appropriate tradeoffs.
I made the switch from .Net to Java, to Javascript, to Python and a bit of Go. People don't bring me mainlyinto projects because I have previous knowledge - which sometimes is also the case ;) - but because they know I am a good building block to work with.
Currently I am doing GIS which upon recently I had no clue about. But I am learning while doing the software.
That’s awesome! Yea that’s how I look at it. I know I will be able to pick up the language pretty seamlessly given an appropriate amount of time just need the employer to take that chance because I feel like some will be hesitant due to my lack of industry experience with the language. But again like you said if I can show the intangibles then they should be more likely to give an offer. Thanks man! Great advice.
I wish you best of luck! :]