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Re:Ask HN: Should I quit the field of software development? by brianwawok on Sunday September 13, 2020 @01:25PM (#24462428)
Do you stay current?

I see resumes for similar aged people who know cold fusion and Delphi, and those that know JavaScript and Elixer.

I suspect interviews go very differently for the two groups.

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Re:Ask HN: Should I quit the field of software development? by ascorbic on Sunday September 13, 2020 @02:01PM (#24462657)
I'm also a software engineer in my 40s who has not had trouble getting jobs. My answer is yes, I definitely keep current. Right now I'm working on Gatsby in TypeScript. 10 years ago it was Phonegap and native iOS. 20 years ago it was PHP and a bit of Mac software in Objective-C. By staying current I can negate the main objection that employers have to older developers, which is that our skills are outdated and we're unwilling to learn new things. It's more fun too!
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Re:Ask HN: Should I quit the field of software development? by jki275 on Sunday September 13, 2020 @06:29PM (#24464473)
Absolutely. C++, C, Java, Python, learning Rust now. Working on another MS just for fun.

I don't do web dev so I don't give a shit about javascript.

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Re:Ask HN: Should I quit the field of software development? by brianwawok on Monday September 14, 2020 @12:01PM (#24471715)
Yah it doesn't mean you need to know everything, but you have to know something current or I think life gets hard for you..
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