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Python is one of the (the?) big languages I still regret not playing with yet. PHP has served me well enough, and my brief but romantic foray into Ruby a few ye
by saltcod 7y ago
Python is one of the (the?) big languages I still regret not playing with yet. PHP has served me well enough, and my brief but romantic foray into Ruby a few years back gave me some perspective and nostalgia.
I don’t have a lot of time for playing with things like this these days, plus I wonder if my window for it has closed anyway. I remember talking about my underwhelming reaction to reading The Catcher in Rye with a friend once. “You read it too late” was his straightforward response.
I wonder if Ruby is my romantic / nostalgic language and whether or not I should just leave it to that.
- brianwawok 7y agoAre you retiring within 2 years? Calling it quits on learning new tech seems a pretty good way to end up like the COBOL developers in the early 2000s as jobs slowly dried up and the ones who refused to change became obsolete.
- pascalxus 7y agoNew languages aren't popping up (and taking over) every 5 years like they used to. The rate of change is slowing. At this point, I think it's fine to settle down with a language, as the entrenched positions of the top languages isn't changing anytime soon. I know, even as early as the late 90s people were saying C++ was done for, and it's still in fairly popular demand (https://skilldime.com/ https://skilldime.com/), mainly due to all that legacy code.