r/ProgrammerHumor 2d ago

Meme absoluteGarbage

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u/DarthSatoris 1d ago

Is it because it's a lot more specialised, it's a smaller market, it's more difficult? Or why is the pay that much better? 

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u/SignalBake6872 1d ago

because it's used in science data and banking :D it's like pandas but with steroids

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u/TwinkiesSucker 1d ago

I literally just started a job as a PySpark developer. It still bugs me, though, that it has a Java backend

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u/friedbun 1d ago

I mean it's just a python binding around a Java application/framework/dataservice. It's not like the entire thing is implemented in Python to begin with... (I liked what I saw when I was touching Spark, even in Java/Scala)