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While it is "fragmented" nowadays, many one of these branches are larger than the mainstream 10-15 years back, especially when it comes to learning resources an
by franciscop 6y ago
While it is "fragmented" nowadays, many one of these branches are larger than the mainstream 10-15 years back, especially when it comes to learning resources and tooling. There has never been a better moment to learn or do programming than now IMHO.
In the same way, something hacked together by your average developer now is a lot more stable than some "production" run 10-15 years ago, even if it's just because of the quality of the infrastructure that exists.
- growlist 6y agoI was aspiring to skill up my JavaScript this year and after a few hundred hours have ended up pretty demoralised, realising that the amount of learning required to be a good JS dev in 2020 (at least where I am working atm) seems enormous, and to be frank I'm too old to be wanting to put in evenings and weekends merely to remain competitive. As a consequence I suspect I may well seek to switch back into support, presales or consultancy, all of which I've done in previous roles, and which seem to be somewhat less competitive than straight dev but still rewarding and reasonably remunerated. Overall my feeling is that unless you're pretty rockstar-ish the cost/benefit of being a dev just simply doesn't pay off in 2020, at least here in the UK.