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by raverbashing 3855 days ago
> The are good career reasons to think long and hard before specializing in this stuff. After all, once you go too far down the rabbit hole, you may not be able to climb back out, and nobody wants to be a 35-year-old developer with a completely obsolete skill set.

Exactly

Also you spent time learning something completely unusable beyond a certain niche, that usually does not transport anywhere back to "sanity land"

I'm strongly opposed learning something that will be good for nothing beyond actually making the wheels of bureaucracy and/or legacy turn