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It seems to me that SQL, C++, and Excel VBA (in that order) are probably the 3 top evergreen skills that folks in the 80s or 90s are still able to utilize in a
by vijucat 7y ago
It seems to me that SQL, C++, and Excel VBA (in that order) are probably the 3 top evergreen skills that folks in the 80s or 90s are still able to utilize in a career spanning 20+ years! JavaScript is probably the equivalent for this generation.
- oconnore 7y agoJavascript + BigQuery (SQL) is great for working with Google spreadsheets.
- lallysingh 7y agoAnd x86 asm.
- ma2rten 7y agoOut of all major programming languages, JavaScript is the language that changed the most in recent years.
- londons_explore 7y agoI tried to teach someone new to programming javascript... I was quite astonished at how hard it is to learn. Nearly anything you'd want to do, there are 5 different ways to achieve it, together with 5 more libraries/abstractions that help solve the issue, and they're all a bit incompatible. Have fun trying to integrate the "document.write('hello world')" example you found from stackoverflow into a react app while being a beginner and not really knowing why exactly they aren't compatible.
- karatestomp 7y agoThe inappropriately-leaked abstraction of the event loop is another big hurdle for newbies in JS-land. Yes we have async/await so it's somewhat less gross now but then that's another of those "5 ways to achieve it" things.