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I think I'm coming to grasps with this too. I'm over 30 and have spent most of my life building large desktop applications in C/C++. I want to eventually work

I think I'm coming to grasps with this too. I'm over 30 and have spent most of my life building large desktop applications in C/C++. I want to eventually work remote, and looking at what's out there, there are very few opportunities with someone with my skillset. It's all modern frameworks and languages. So, I'm spending some of my own time learning some of this stuff.

_yosefk 11y ago
Embedded programming is much more stable wrt languages and (often non-existent) frameworks. Nice for C/C++ devs.
- sgt101 11y ago
  I worked as a C and then C++ dev for a few years and then I started a Ph.D writing a C++ code base. I remember the day that I got java 0.7 running on my spark 20. I would never touch the STL again, never have to worry about malloc and #def overwrites. No more gdb. There's not much nice for c/c++ devs, pity them.
  - tosseraccount 11y ago
    How many java programs are running your desktop now? How many C/C++ programs?
- housel 11y ago
  Embedded programming is also harder to do remotely due to needing hands-on access to development hardware, frequent access to hardware engineers, expensive test equipment, and so forth.
- vonmoltke 11y ago
  It's also a silo that can be hard to get out of and is very hard to get into, because all you do is C or C++ work and everyone wants C or C++ experts for their jobs.