Re:The software industry is going through the “disposable pl...
by benhurmarcel on Friday August 21, 2020 @06:00AM
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It's common outside the software world too.
I work on aircraft design. We have people supporting legacy aircraft that were designed up to 50 years ago. I (and a lot of engineers) actively avoid those positions, and try to stick to programs that are less than 10-20 years old.
It's old technology, you don't get investment to improve anything, you don't get to work with modern tools (go back to working with scanned drawings instead of CAD data for example)…
I work on aircraft design. We have people supporting legacy aircraft that were designed up to 50 years ago. I (and a lot of engineers) actively avoid those positions, and try to stick to programs that are less than 10-20 years old.
It's old technology, you don't get investment to improve anything, you don't get to work with modern tools (go back to working with scanned drawings instead of CAD data for example)…