Ask HN: What happens to older developers?

Re:Ask HN: What happens to older developers? by nawitus on Monday March 10, 2014 @05:41PM (#7375874)

Here's a tip: never bet on something proprietary.

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Re:Ask HN: What happens to older developers? by jussij on Monday March 10, 2014 @09:02PM (#7376783)

Here's my 20+ years of experience working as a contract in Australia.

In all that time I've only ever worked with proprietary tools and have never had trouble getting high paying contract work.

I would say I've done very well betting on something proprietary.

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Re:Ask HN: What happens to older developers? by hkarthik on Monday March 10, 2014 @10:09PM (#7377014)

Parent comment had to be qualified a bit: Never bet on anything proprietary which doesn't offer significant advantages over non-proprietary competitors.

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Re:Ask HN: What happens to older developers? by nextw33k on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @05:36AM (#7378221)

Sliverlight would be a great example of that.

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Re:Ask HN: What happens to older developers? by gaius on Friday March 14, 2014 @01:57PM (#7400597)

LOL. I know guys who have worked the last 20 years on Oracle, and they'll have no trouble finding work for 20 more. The same for Visual C++. Or a whole host of other things. The world isn't as simple as GNU ideology would have you believe.

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Re:Ask HN: What happens to older developers? by roel_v on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @06:01AM (#7378312)

Yeah, like that article from yesterday about the Perl6 guys doubling down because in 18 months when Perl6 was done, the speaking/writing/consulting gravy train was coming...

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