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I'm not sure if this will help me. I guess I'm in a programmer midlife crisis. Every new thing is potentially a waste of time because you can't predict if it is
by stesch 11y ago
I'm not sure if this will help me. I guess I'm in a programmer midlife crisis. Every new thing is potentially a waste of time because you can't predict if it is still around in 2 years. And with Google you know that they invest millions of dollars in projects and then abandon them.
Would I be better off maintaining decade old COBOL projects? Sometimes I think so. Other times I'm glad I can chose the technology I want to solve the problems at work.
August 2015. 31 years since my first computer.
- ansible 11y agoYou can never stop learning. Go is my current 'thing', at least for personal projects. But who knows what the landscape will be like in 5 years or 10. For a while I though Haskell was the most awesome thing. Good Haskell code has a timeless quality to it (in a couple senses of the word). But I found adapting my thinking to it difficult, and it wasn't likely to be something I'd use at work then or now.