>Consequently, I'm not convinced "keeping skills current" is the way to go. Depends on what you mean by "keeping skills current". Certainly, chasing the late

>Consequently, I'm not convinced "keeping skills current" is the way to go. Depends on what you mean by "keeping skills current". Certainly, chasing the latest fad framework / language is clearly a losing game. However, there are plenty of fundamental areas that are worth learning (or refreshing), such as statistics + data analysis (the basis of the recent "data science" hype), systems programming (e.g. driver development, embedded systems (the basis of the IoT hype), DSP + signal processing, and so forth that broaden your capabilities and are both independent of language and essentially timeless.