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It depends on what you want to do. If you want to stay on the bleeding edge of things, building awesome products and generally having a good time, then sure, a
by daeken 13y ago
It depends on what you want to do. If you want to stay on the bleeding edge of things, building awesome products and generally having a good time, then sure, always keep learning and switching toolsets and all that. But there are niches (e.g. driver development, reverse-engineering, compiler dev (just taking some niches I personally work in and know well)) where your toolset may not change substantially for a decade or more. This isn't necessarily the most fun work in the world, but that's why it remains highly paying, and will for a very long time to come. You don't see many people coming out of college and saying "you know what? I want to write kernel drivers for webcams!", versus "I'm going to build the next Facebook!"
- emelski 13y agoOf course, you can both master a niche _and_ build awesome products and have a good time -- the two are not mutually exclusive as your comment implies.
- hatu 13y agoFacebook was built with PHP. I think it's almost a cargo-cult to think that you HAVE to be switching technologies constantly to build the awesomest stuff out there. You do your best work with a language/environment maybe 2+ years in when you know it very well.