Re:How popular media portrays the employability of older sof...
by oblio on Monday July 27, 2020 @02:39PM
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I think it easy to lose sight of the big picture.
Things are constantly improving, even if the road is winding. People just forget some of the horrors of the past. We used to have VB/VBA, now we have Javascript. We used to have Ada, now we have Rust. C++ has evolved.
Even C has evolved, in a kind of meta way: C itself hasn't evolved much, but the ecosystem around it has evolved a lot. How common was something like Valgrind back in 1990?
Things are constantly improving, even if the road is winding. People just forget some of the horrors of the past. We used to have VB/VBA, now we have Javascript. We used to have Ada, now we have Rust. C++ has evolved.
Even C has evolved, in a kind of meta way: C itself hasn't evolved much, but the ecosystem around it has evolved a lot. How common was something like Valgrind back in 1990?
Whenever you forget how much we've moved forward, despite occasional setbacks, look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPF4fBGNK0U :-)