[weliketocode]

This is a scare-tactic article from 10 years ago quoting ANOTHER scare-tactic article from 10 years prior.

The truth: The number of programmers has doubled every two years since the 70s. The demand for programmers is today exceeding the supply.

Until the supply/demand forces change, these headlines will continue to be nothing but fake news.

[kls]

Agreed those of us over 40 lived in a time where there was no such thing as a "web developer" only some of us jumped over to doing "web development" so the actual pool of people available to do the job, that have the skills from Gen-X is insanely small compared to the overall demand the industry has generated for developers.

Almost all of the developers I knew from my younger days have either, gotten rich, gotten out (one bought a worm farm), or went into some form of management. All due to their own decisions no one was forcing them out of development, rather development has a way of chewing people up to the point where they want to be spit out. It is the reason that Office Space was such a resounding hit with us Gen-X'ers it struck at the heart of what it can be like to work in IT.

[ryandrake]

> The demand for programmers is today exceeding the supply.

Tell that to the company having to screen through 100 resumes and interview 10 candidates for every open development position they post. Or to the developer who has to apply to 100 jobs in order to get 10 interviews and maybe one offer.

The "Shortage of Engineers" meme truly won't die.