murgaan

This makes me sad. Instead of educating ourselves, we're supposed to give up and write for the lowest common denominator, whose reading skills continue to erode. I don't need my technical documents to read like DFW, but let's not take all the fun out of it.

Every time I cook and look up a recipe for the ingredients I have on hand my whole family has to listen to me rant and rave about this phenomenon. I clicked through the link above, scrolled and scrolled, figured out I had been duped, and gave up to come back here for the comments to commiserate.

This has very much been my experience. I used to be the young guy. Now I'm the middle aged guy. I work with all kinds of developers older than I am all across the embedded software industry.The oldest guy on our team is in his 60s. It helps that tried and true technology which still underpins everything else (C, POSIX, sockets, serial comms) doesn't drastically change with every new hype and trend. Sure, it changes and will change but in units of decades. The next airplanes aren't going all Rust any time soon. And even cutting edge companies like Tesla/SPACEX need old school C programmers. And when/if it goes all Rust or something else, I don't think us old guys are going to have too much trouble switching over, and the ones who do can spend all their time maintaining legacy systems. In other words, I don't see how I (in my early forties) could outlive my usefulness.