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I have been in and around the IT industry since the 1980s and I still can't discern a pattern as to what lasts. My only advice is let the market sort it out by
by smackeyacky 5y ago
I have been in and around the IT industry since the 1980s and I still can't discern a pattern as to what lasts. My only advice is let the market sort it out by always being slower to adopt something until at least it gets to the edge of mainstream. Cutting edge and shiny is only for when you absolutely have to have some feature nothing else provides. Plus when you pick something, figure on staying with it until it becomes a PITA.
- certeoun 5y agoIOW: be conservative (in your decisions) and move like a tankship and not like a speedboat. Old is good. NASA does this too, AFAIK. They use conservative/old tech that has stood the test of time. (Lindy effect?) That's the reason I won't switch to Rust from C++. I wait until it is matured enough and standardized. (Also, I wait until it makes C++ less relevant. It hasn't so far.) C++ does the job. There's no perfect language or other technology. Many things have pros and cons. https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2017/08/19/programming-language-life-expectancy/ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2017/08/19/programming-langua... Naval Ravikant also shares this sentiment, as far as I am aware.