> If you're a top-rate software engineer, you're not going to choose a career path that will trap you in some deprecated technology. Which is kinda good, to be

> If you're a top-rate software engineer, you're not going to choose a career path that will trap you in some deprecated technology. Which is kinda good, to be honest. Long-term Fortran projects and the like don't deal with the usual FAANG-type career-oriented churn that well, that mirrors the same problems you have in academia-oriented libraries where you get maintenance gaps when graduate students leave.