Winternet

It doesn’t seem quite right to me that programming jobs are always advertised by language instead of domain knowledge. I’d much rather have a programmer on our team who understood the Web domain (REST, HTTP, content databases, client/server, and on and on) than one whose personal language preference happened to match up with our office. Fact is, we could be wrong about the language we’ve chosen, the database we’ve chosen, the middlewhere we use, the APIs we’ve created, etc. and not see the forest for the trees. I’d gladly take someone who could come in and see the simplest solutions to these (someone who knows how to cut with the grain) even if it meant some short-term unpleasantness while we retrain in a new language.