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Re:Swift architecture at Uber by bshimmin on Thursday April 27, 2017 @04:04AM (#14209949)
If you're in your fifties, a single decade is about all you need to take you through to retirement age.

To be honest, I would've said going deep on JavaScript right now (React, React Native, etc) would give you a shelf life of at least five years.

Kotlin seems like a bit of a random recommendation - it's not in the TIOBE top 50, and a quick search for Kotlin jobs on indeed.com (the first job search site I found from Google) reveals several orders of magnitude fewer jobs than for anything mainstream (hell, even Haskell beats it comprehensively). Perhaps it's the next big thing though!

Re:Swift architecture at Uber by coldcode on Thursday April 27, 2017 @09:08AM (#14211160)
Javascript frameworks change on an annual basis if not faster.
Re:Swift architecture at Uber by root_axis on Thursday April 27, 2017 @10:05AM (#14211518)
This is a trendy sentiment that is oft repeated but of dubious veracity. Seems to me that Angular and React have remained as the preeminent Javascript frameworks for quite a few years without much signs of a shakeup, with the exception of vue.js taking on some modest gains in popularity, but still decidedly in the shadow of Angular and React.
Re:Swift architecture at Uber by sedky on Thursday April 27, 2017 @09:41AM (#14211361)
I feel like Node, Angular, React have all been around for a few years each