Ask HN: Starting a career as a programmer in my mid-40s

Re:Ask HN: Starting a career as a programmer in my mid-40s by flower1528 on Sunday November 07, 2021 @12:50PM (#29141682)

Could I get more clues? How might someoone hire a 40 year old for NFT/blockchain?

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Re:Ask HN: Starting a career as a programmer in my mid-40s by tpae on Sunday November 07, 2021 @12:56PM (#29141753)

Solidity (language for Ethereum Smart Contracts) is relatively easy to learn. There's also tons of free resources in learning them (https://cryptozombies.io/). I would say this would be one of the hottest languages of 2022.

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Re:Ask HN: Starting a career as a programmer in my mid-40s by ronanyeah on Sunday November 07, 2021 @01:02PM (#29141818)

Yeah Solidity has many resources and is worth learning. Solana is another smart contract platform which uses Rust, and Rust is a fantastic language, though it is tough.

Both ecosystems use Node.js for scripting/tests/frontend so that is going to be advantage to learn.

A good progression might be:

  - Modern JS / Node.js
  - Solidity / Ethers (https://docs.ethers.io/)
  - Rust
  - Solana / Anchor (https://project-serum.github.io/anchor/getting-started/introduction.html)

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Re:Ask HN: Starting a career as a programmer in my mid-40s by flower1528 on Sunday November 07, 2021 @01:00PM (#29141794)

Yes. This feels like 2007-level of hotness. Thank you.

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