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Definitely agree - at my last employer, there were 3 of us in our 40s. Their skill set could be best summarised by "the year 2005": Subversion, MFC, and C++03.
by DrBazza 6y ago
Definitely agree - at my last employer, there were 3 of us in our 40s. Their skill set could be best summarised by "the year 2005": Subversion, MFC, and C++03.
- arethuza 6y agoI suspect that in 15 years people will be saying the same about K8s, possibly JS if Wasm takes off and I suspect ML will a fairly niche area.
- arp242 6y agoSo? Subversion works fine; nothing wrong with it. Are you now a bad developer if you focus on actually getting stuff done instead of spending time migrating to a new tool?
- DrBazza 6y agoConsidering the company is down to its last couple of developers and can't attract new ones because of the old technology stack, it's definitely a problem.
- smsm42 6y agoIs "subversion" a skill (unless we're talking about spies ;)? It's just a tool. I've used it. I've used cvs, git and other stuff too. If I had for some reason to work in a company that uses some other tool to handle their code repos, I'd learn it in a month or so (less if it's organized logically). It's like saying "driving a Honda Civic" is a skill - driving is a skill, Honda Civic may be what you're driving right now, and next week you may need to drive a BMW, and being able to do both is what I'd call a skill.
- glouwbug 6y agoI guess, but those tools alone build powerful fast software, and those programmers are solving problems which translate well to any field requiring problem solving. The software world may change rapidly, but a React / Git stack is no different than a C++ / Subversion stack when both jobs require programmers to solve hard, complex problems.