[psyklic]

Learning a specific technology for a single project may have a short half-life. However, good coders aren't defined by tech knowledge, but by their deep understanding. If you can make great presentations in Powerpoint, everyone knows you'll still make good presentations in Google Slides.

[sjm]

Exactly. It's like the difference between thinking about tech proficiency in terms of "being good at C++" vs. being good at software engineering and being language agnostic.

[graemep]

I am not sure about that example. A lot of people learn to use a specific piece of software and memorise how to do stuff and are therefore confused by the slightest difference.

[datadrivenangel]

Those are the people who will fall behind...

[nottorp]

Not really, there are quite a few organizations that won't hire you unless you have 15 years experience in Google Slides exactly.

[dakiol]

Good engineers can easily change “power point” for “google slides” as needed in their cvs.