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Exactly, they would have rather gone hungry than suffer being an “enterprise developer”

• ghaff 4y ago
  And, in fairness, they may not have really had much experience with mainframe, AS/400, etc. technologies. I probably wasn't going to hire a front-end HTML developer to write my business apps. Yeah, there was a fair bit of Webifying apps going on but probably a lot of mismatch between startup devs and enterprise devs in that period.
  • scarface74 4y ago
    I was writing C and C++ mostly on the Microsoft stack from 1996-2008. I moved over to C# for Windows mobile devices by 2008-2011. I was using Sql Server and MySQL for a backend. I also did a little HTML/JavaScript and Perl. I graduated in 1996 and while I did take classes in FORTRAN and COBOL, I also took a class in C. I learned C++, Microsoft technologies (MFC, COM, etc$ VB6 and SQL on the job as well as HTML, JavaScript and Perl from the O’Reilly series of books by 2000.
    • ghaff 4y ago
      Microsoft and related was probably more insulated from the carnage in the startup world than companies like Sun were. I was much more familiar with the Unix and related vendors at the time. But pretty much all the big computer and storage companies took massive hits. As did anyone who depended on them for revenue. It's absolutely not true that getting a job in tech, in general, wasn't a big deal in the early 2000s.