Nope. Completely disagree. While its certainly amongst the fastest moving professions, not all that much has changed in the last twenty years. Sure massive shifts happened in the year, decades before y2k but nowadays not so much. There‘s always the hot new thing of the month, but if look behind the curtain and its just more of the same. Except someone took the time & money you had not and now its hot and you can use it and benefit from it.
In the last deacades programming languages, processes, tools, etc have largely remained the same. oop, ddd, eventdriven, agile, dvcs, functional, ... all invented and used ages ago. Nowadays all we do is refine the status quo.
Take kubernetes & serverless for instance, its just automation of what we used to do and does what we were dreaming of doing twenty years ago. And there is still so much of what we dream of that it does not yet do...
The only thing that does expire in an instant is your expert level knowledge of framework X at version x.y.z . But if you define that as your skill barometer you’ve already lost. You‘ll be forever running to stay current.
The trick is expertly applying stuff you do not yet know or have just grasped. As a programmer we almost daily have to work wigh new code, concepts, frameworks, ... you name it.
Today maybe even more daunting is when you have to work, interop, replace old stuff. That COBOL,FORTRAN,... may not be new to the world, but it will certainly be to you. Except it not cool and the web has forgotten about it, so you‘re on your own.
Thats the nice thing about the new, the shiny: there are a ton of superb free courses, documentation, examples, millions of lines of exemplary code.
Its easy to learn the new.
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Nope. Completely disagree. While its certainly amongst the fastest moving professions, not all that much has changed in the last twenty years. Sure massive shifts happened in the year, decades before y2k but nowadays not so much. There‘s always the hot new thing of the month, but if look behind the curtain and its just more of the same. Except someone took the time & money you had not and now its hot and you can use it and benefit from it.
In the last deacades programming languages, processes, tools, etc have largely remained the same. oop, ddd, eventdriven, agile, dvcs, functional, ... all invented and used ages ago. Nowadays all we do is refine the status quo.
Take kubernetes & serverless for instance, its just automation of what we used to do and does what we were dreaming of doing twenty years ago. And there is still so much of what we dream of that it does not yet do...
The only thing that does expire in an instant is your expert level knowledge of framework X at version x.y.z . But if you define that as your skill barometer you’ve already lost. You‘ll be forever running to stay current.
The trick is expertly applying stuff you do not yet know or have just grasped. As a programmer we almost daily have to work wigh new code, concepts, frameworks, ... you name it.
Today maybe even more daunting is when you have to work, interop, replace old stuff. That COBOL,FORTRAN,... may not be new to the world, but it will certainly be to you. Except it not cool and the web has forgotten about it, so you‘re on your own.
Thats the nice thing about the new, the shiny: there are a ton of superb free courses, documentation, examples, millions of lines of exemplary code.
Its easy to learn the new.