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by Flankk 1466 days ago
No advice, I feel the same. The industry has gone to shit and it's crossed the point of no return. The only real innovation has been with AI. Everything else is an endless reinvention of the wheel. Most of the skills I've learned are equivalent to underwater basket weaving. OOP was supposed to manage complexity but it actually creates more complexity. Imagine going back to the 70s and talking to a developer learning C and Scheme. How depressing to tell them no improvements will be made over the next 50 years and languages will actually get much worse.
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jacknews 1466 days ago
I don't agree languages have got worse, it's much easier to build anything today than in the 70s, not just because of tooling and libraries, but the languages themselves are just easier and help build structure.

What makes development 'worse' today I think, is much more of it is just integrating with myriad other systems, tools, etc, which can be dull and frustrating, and I'm sure no-code will just make it much worse.

And then there's scrum.

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Flankk 1466 days ago
It's not easier to build anything. It's easier to build web applications and video games but we already have way too many of those. If you're doing something innovative you will find things have indeed gone backwards in a fundamental way.
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jacknews 1466 days ago
How can this be true? You still have the option of installing a K&R C compiler or whatever.

What has changed is that the complexity required of software has vastly increased. And perhaps there's an argument that the tools and languages have not kept up.

But try developing anything today with an old version of any language or tools, and it's not better, else obviously that's what everyone would do.

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Flankk 1466 days ago
People choose what language they learn based on what jobs are available. Companies choose what language they use based on what FAANG companies use. What you're saying is not obvious, it is a naive assumption. Popular does not equal good. If that's what you think you can go ahead and explain why Java is superior to C++. I don't think you even know why it rose to prominence.
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