Software developer salaries in 2022

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I got more work between now and 2019 ... thats all.
 
My family after seeing this article:
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Is Angular losing ground? Interesting to see languages overtaking Angular in SA!
 
zerocool2009 said:
Is Angular losing ground? Interesting to see languages overtaking Angular in SA!
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Technology trends move more slowly locally than internationally. So yes, Angular has been on a downward trend globally for some time now, this was more rapid in the US.

A few things triggered this loss of Angular mindshare off:
  • AngularJS to Angular2. This sort of massive breaking change chases people off. This move, while debateably technically correct, lost them their "first mover" advantage (often more important in tech than technical merit) with a rewrite.
  • The arrival of React. While JSX might have seemed alien at first, with the AngularJS to Angular2 debacle, people were more willing to give React and it's "radical" new approach a try.
  • Barrier to entry. Angular is complex for simple things and it frontloads most of this complexity. I often say that Angular looks like a framework designed by a 2000s era Java backend developer.
  • vs Low barrier to Entry. React is simple to start with, you add the complexity in as you grow and need it.
 
noxibox said:
Sounds like scammers trying to get in early on what they hope is the next big financial scam.
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Lol.

I'm not an all-in on it yet (especially not NFT monkey png's), but I can see the concept around blockchain ( + smart contracts ) for a number of use cases make more and more sense.

Crypto as a currency is just a subset of what blockchain technology is capable of.
 
Skankhunt said:
Soooooo underpaid vs EU / US startups.

Crypto devs doing $200k - $300k per year.

Just saw this on LinkedIn yesterday, fully remote too.

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You can’t just compare it directly.

This is Africa and the money goes a lot further here. Those folks need those big salaries just to stay afloat in many cases.
 
Apparently I don’t need to become a “real” developer because there isn’t really much to be gained.
 
SauRoNZA said:
You can’t just compare it directly.

This is Africa and the money goes a lot further here. Those folks need those big salaries just to stay afloat in many cases.
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Of course.

Although to be honest, my top earning friends live in the cheapest possible locations (eg Thailand, Bali, etc), so their savings will go a lot further and retirement age (±45) a lot earlier.
 
SauRoNZA said:
You can’t just compare it directly.

This is Africa and the money goes a lot further here. Those folks need those big salaries just to stay afloat in many cases.
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This has become far less true of late, due to the recent wide acceptance of remote working.
 
cguy said:
This has become far less true of late, due to the recent wide acceptance of remote working.
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Yeah this is true.

One has to consider the location of the earner.

Let’s rephrase then and say one shouldn’t directly compare the salaries offered in South Africa to locally resident South Africans.
 
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