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> how long our current short sighted computing culture overall can last. Well, we can keep adding new programming languages and keep "extending" javascript (bo
by iLemming 7y ago
> how long our current short sighted computing culture overall can last.
Well, we can keep adding new programming languages and keep "extending" javascript (borrowing every single good and a bad idea from those new languages) for a very long time. Today the demand requires narrow-focused specialists with a median tenure in a company of 2.5 years. They don't even want "front-end" or "back-end" engineers anymore, they want "React", "Angular", "Flutter", "GraphQL", "Kotlin", "Swift", "Golang" etc. engineers.
Not too many companies see value in generalists. Those who can look at the domain and design business logic, funneling data from back to front, to mobile apps and back to the API. And it's not so simple anymore. Everything is getting unnecessarily complicated.
- scroot 7y agoYeah stagnation can last for a long time, even as the structural aspects of that stagnation become overwhelmingly apparent. We are in the "Brezhnev Period" of computing in that sense