Reflections of an “Old” Programmer
Hm. The author works for a web&#x2F;mobile development agency and uses React Native and GWT as examples of the new and the old, respectively. I hope it isn&#x27;t news to anybody here that this sort of work is a race to the bottom and has such turnover precisely because it&#x27;s mostly being done by junior developers. Linux systems programming arcana, for instance, doesn&#x27;t disintegrate so quickly as the ten years the author cites. That&#x27;s why, after getting into the industry as a frontend web dev, I will only do that sort of work now as a last resort to pay the bills (the other reason is because it&#x27;s easy&#x2F;boring as hell, apart from the greater opportunity for mentoring). Doing that sort of work now feels like I am sabotaging my career.