I saw a question today: If you want to find someone to make something similar to WeChat, the quotation is 10W+, why is it so expensive? Some people think that most programmers are not in the mainstream, and they just copy things, but they have such a high salary, so is the salary in the IT industry inflated? Do you understand the high salary of programmers?
See what some programmers have to say:
Most are copied? Limited to copy and paste?
Program portability is an important reflection of the value of a program! At the beginning, the teacher said that if your program can only be used by others and cannot be transplanted, then your program is meaningless. The truth that predecessors planted trees and later people enjoyed the shade. But there will always be new functions implemented. If it is all copy and paste, what do we need to do?
Is writing code less difficult than most jobs on the market?
This is typical of standing and talking without back pain. Tucao from programmers: Why do we work overtime? Why do we lose hair? Why do all the people who go up to the Zhongguancun subway station bow their heads? Why is Mr. Huang also bald? Why? Have you thought about it? Do you think we are less stressed? Do you think we're not in a hurry? After a few years of working in IT, the kidneys have been deficient, and staying up late is a common thing!
It is a fact that programmers earn more than other occupations. And it's not false at all. The world needs a lot of people to do these things, and there are too few capable people. As long as these programmers have a few years of experience in several companies and have accumulated a unique (and only themselves) set of skills, they can always find high-paying and valuable jobs. Because they are rare animals. As soon as a company happens to be in desperate need of that unique set of skills, the rarity is already evident. The problem is that more than one family thinks they are rare, so all kinds of loot. Therefore, rare high-level programmers can pick and choose. Companies compete for programmers rather than programmers competing for entry into companies.
Of all occupations, programmers are the fastest growing. Everyone should be able to see it. Many traditional job types have gradually been replaced. It is because programmers automate these tasks. This trend is sure to continue. The simplest example would be a cashier job. Supermarkets that used to require dozens of employees to handle the checkout now only need one or two cashiers. Various increasingly advanced automatic cash register machines in supermarkets. At least in most supermarkets in the UK. The entire manual collection and banking industry may not exist in the future. Oh, and almost all transactions in the financial industry are now automated.
In fact, in most industries, sooner or later, a similar phenomenon of elimination will occur. At present, it is not expected that one day doctors will be replaced by software. But think about it, a software that can share and synchronize all the medical data in the world to make a diagnosis is far better than a human brain can do. A lawyer may also be less able to analyze cases and files over the years to find vulnerabilities than a software program. I will not talk about other industries one by one, and it is worth writing about them in the future.
These changes will far exceed those of several industrial revolutions. The software industry is the only one that can last longer. The automation softwareization of these other industries also requires these programmers to implement and maintain. But in the coming decades, the demand will only increase. The wage gap with other industries will also become more extreme.