[jsolano]

I am more or less in the same position, I'm 39 old with a very good programmer job, in this case with a Java stack. My personal opinion is that Java, J2EE, .Net will continue to be relevant because many business have migrated his legacy cobol apps to this stack, but sad but true, .Net and Java are the new cobol... you can retired woking with they, but they are not the future any more.

The future is in languages as Scala, Python, Ruby, Javascript and ideas as Node.js, NoSQL.... you want to create a new stack to play... review that are using the top startup and you will see a clear map.

My strategy is to use this new technologies in my side projects, nobody pay me for that (yet) but allow me mastering what is comming. Make this transition with a full time job, family, wife and kids is a big challenge. I want be part of the new wave in IT and no spend the rest of my life in legacy technologies.

Let me know and I can show you more ideas how start the trip...

J

[jfletch1925]

Glad to hear from someone in the same boat as me!

I realize this is the case for Java and .NET which is probably the main reason I'm thinking about switching. I've done quite a bit of work with OO Javascript professionally, but I've only done side projects in Python and Ruby. I've done some reading on Node.js and NoSQL, but that's about it.

I want to be part of the new wave in IT as well. I don't have a wife and kids so I definitely have more free time.

I'm interested in any more ideas you have on getting started down this path.