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by bell-cot
943 days ago
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> Java is the new Cobol times 1000... I got into computer stuff back when mainframes were "obviously, forever". And minicomputers ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minicomputer ) were for companies too small or weak to get a real computer (mainframe). Then OOPS! - some of our nice little terminals ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_terminal ) mutated, and evolved into those stupid little "PC's", and Things Changed. Cycles of change within the computer field didn't stop there. Nor did ups and downs "imported" from the rest of the economy. At least from the inside, the dot-com stock market bubble ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble ) of ~1995 - Mar'2020 seemed ( in hindsight ) like a remake of the South Seas Bubble ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_seas_bubble ). Then there was 9/11, and ... So - yes, there's an end to the current job market crash. Just like every prior crash. But being old only gives me a broader perspective - I don't know when or how the crash will end. (Though "end" is probably a poor word - "slowly start to recover" how things actually go.) Nor do I know how well Java/Scala will do, longer-term. |
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