What specific niche in low level programming has the most jobs?

[agile harbor]

I worked in this space so my thoughts are just be slightly more general and you’ll be fine in terms of amount of different options for you

I worked as an OS dev in my first role and then moved to robotics in my next and now in finance

With OS, and modern C++ knowledge you can do many different kinds of work

And I have interviewed for compiler roles as well but didn’t enjoy them

[fresh thorn]

I've seen a good number of embedded software positions as well as firmware engineer positions

[agile harbor]

its widely used yeah

go would make no sense

never heard of Zig

plenty of new projects use rust

plenty of roles want C

yes

Go would make so little sense lol i dont think any embedded roles would use that

would hate to have my airplane use Go

anyways

low level

anything that requires systems level performance, Go doesnt make a ton of sense

at least in things i can imagine

but i hear ya

eh compilers isnt my thing

complex and i dont think im smart enough for that shit

yeah tons

i literally only know C++

some python if you force me

i mean depends on the role and your years of experience, not all roles built the same

i used to work at the most popular robotics company in the world and i was asked what a shared pointer was, which is not super deep knowledge at all

however some finance roles will ask about template metaprogramming, compiler optimzations, etc

just kind of depends

yep

nah i mean just keep learning, i think it will totally work out

shit if you work at like, intel or qualcomm maybe, even then role specific

i would say you dont need to keep it up no