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When I started my first development job I didn't even know how to write HTML, I came from writing Windows applications (MFC and Winforms) and AVR/Arduino. Over
by dbattaglia 9y ago
When I started my first development job I didn't even know how to write HTML, I came from writing Windows applications (MFC and Winforms) and AVR/Arduino. Over the past 10 years I've learned that there is actually quite a lot of interesting stuff to be done in web development land outside of UI/JavaScript. Right now I'm working for a company building a Docker/microservices framework, touching nearly every part of the modern software stack (UI, web APIs, networking, Linux, etc). For me being able to code professionally was far more important than being able to code the stuff I was interested in specifically at the time, and it's worked out very well for me.
- whoami_nr 9y agoI totally agree with this. Even I started with web development (backend though) and for a brief period tried to grok some JS frameworks. Took up jobs immaterial of the front end stack and started learning them on the fly. Played with Angular the most. Somehow later my quest for figuring out how a computer works bought me to operating systems and then to a lower level where I deal with assembly these days. I still understand I haven't gone down deep enough but I very much like the path I am pursuing and want to know how deep this rabbit hole goes. However, I wonder if I would be employable with all this knowledge except in some niche places which are absent in India.