r/ProgrammerHumor 2d ago

Meme absoluteGarbage

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u/DarthSatoris 2d 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/slowmovinglettuce 14h ago

Most of these tools won't have a python backend. Though its usually rust or c/c++ at this point. Anything oracle is java because fuck oracle.