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Apple open sourcing Swift is not magically goingto make your skills transportable. The only person who can make your skills transportable is yourself.
by incepted 11y ago
Apple open sourcing Swift is not magically goingto make your skills transportable.
The only person who can make your skills transportable is yourself.
- blazespin 11y agoYep! And the way to do that is stay away from proprietary technologies wherever possible.
- incepted 11y agoThen you're limiting the amount of skills you possess. Learn open source and proprietary technologies alike, now you become someone with a lot of diverse skills. This open source fanboyism makes no sense if you want to be professional about your craft.
- vetinari 11y agoYou have to limit what are you going to learn, otherwise you will have no time to build anything. So you have to pick carefully. Generally, the open technologies were proved to be useful in long-term, and even when they change, they change evolutionary. You don't have big bumps and complete u-turns in your progress. There is also no-one, who suddenly decides that the technology you were invested into is suddenly not profitable for them and ceases development. The open source technologies die only then, when they are not useful to anyone. So basically, strong preference for open technologies is a pragmatic risk mitigation and investment protection.
- incepted 11y agoHello German friend, > So basically, strong preference for open technologies is a pragmatic risk mitigation and investment protection. .net and Microsoft technologies completely invalidate that claim, don't you think?
- thawkins 11y agoNope, i wont touch them either for the same reason. Although ms is starting to get its act together and open sourcing parts of its ecosystem. Anyway who would write a net application on windows, they would need thier head seeing to.