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With your C skills I'd consider a parallel market in embedded or low level work to expand your skills in those areas. You might be able to move from that up to
by SillyUsername 2y ago
With your C skills I'd consider a parallel market in embedded or low level work to expand your skills in those areas.
You might be able to move from that up to to mobile development etc.
Tech stacks there tend to be Java, Swift, C, React Native (similar to React web) so it opens a lot of areas.
P.S. I'm not far behind in age but I code in 2 different tech stacks daily at work, on FE and BE, and stick my nose into parallel stacks to get that experience, specifically so I don't get COBOL'd (do one thing my entire career, and then that one thing no longer has developer demand).
- jacknews 2y agoBut it seems embedded pays horribly, is not respected, and can be way more frustrating due to hardware bugs etc.
- 0x000xca0xfe 2y agoYou are unfortuately right! I gave up embedded development for the time being because it's hard and thankless work. But maybe for older people it would be ok? Embedded projects are usually more "traditionally" programmed and pretty slow moving.
- hiAndrewQuinn 2y agoPay could be better, and hardware bugs can be frustrating, but I definitely respect embedded guys a lot. More than most generalist developers, in fact, due to the atoms-adjacent nature of their work.
- jacknews 2y agoSure, but I mean that they are not so respected in the hierarchy within hardware companies, the way devs are in big tech, say.
- hiAndrewQuinn 2y agoAhhh, that makes much more sense to me. Dovetails a bit with the dick measuring contest folks in the hard sciences like to do about purity.