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Re:Apps Getting Worse by Zababa on Monday August 09, 2021 @03:11PM (#28121017)
> It's all putting good for yourself over good for your customer and good for your employer.

Wouldn't this not happen if the employers just paid more? From what I understand, people do resume-driven development because they want to work at a place that will pay more at some point.

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Re:Apps Getting Worse by lytefm on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @07:54AM (#28127706)
Fair point. There was a discussion about an article asking why companies don't pay their Developers more to stay recently [1].

If I was maintaining some decades-old legacy code and knew that my employer will most likely still be around and pay me a competitive salary for the rest of my life, I wouldn't mind just mastering COBOL.

But most companies go bust or lay off developers at some point, so keeping yourself employable by working with the latest tech stack is unfortunately quite a necessity.

[1] https://marker.medium.com/why-dont-tech-companies-pay-their-...

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Re:Apps Getting Worse by Zababa on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @12:50PM (#28131118)
That's what I've heard too, that most COBOL jobs don't pay that much and have been outsourced.

> If I was maintaining some decades-old legacy code and knew that my employer will most likely still be around and pay me a competitive salary for the rest of my life, I wouldn't mind just mastering COBOL.

That is how I feel too. In fact I'd prefer working on something that really lasts compared to the latest fad. But the differences in salary make this a difficult choices.

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