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Trends are the tides of culture, and I'd argue that culture matters overall. If you're using a lang/toolset that's widely out of fashion and also isn't widely u
by entropicdrifter 4y ago
Trends are the tides of culture, and I'd argue that culture matters overall. If you're using a lang/toolset that's widely out of fashion and also isn't widely used by slower moving institutions, you're the cultural equivalent of a monk in a mountainside monastery copying down texts for future generations: your work may hold cultural influence down the line, but for your lifetime, you're gonna be largely isolated and unappreciated unless you happen to get extremely lucky.
- pjmlp 4y agoUnless one does enterprise consulting for companies whose main business is unrelated to shipping software.
- entropicdrifter 4y agoNo, I'd still say that people in those circumstances are highly isolated from programming culture at-large. I'm not saying it's not a viable career, I'm saying it's sacrificing cultural relevance.