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 (DIR) Post #AVhrx25LT32ULI7gR6 by alexelcu@social.alexn.org
       2023-05-16T08:14:55Z
       
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       "My 20 Year Career is Technical Debt or Deprecated”The author has an interesting perspective, except that he's missing one big culprit for this perspective … using primarily Microsoft stacks.At the risk of stating the obvious, POSIX is as relevant as ever (created in the 1980s!), #Python is almost as old as #Perl, older than #PHP, #Java and #JavaScript are as old as Python, and older than Visual Basic 6, and PHP is still in top 5 most popular languages.https://blog.visionarycto.com/p/my-20-year-career-is-technical-debt
       
 (DIR) Post #AVhshbkHDSBYGGTdYG by alexelcu@social.alexn.org
       2023-05-16T08:23:20Z
       
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       #ActiveX, #Flash, #Silverlight are all dead b/c they were proprietary pieces of shit that couldn't survive once some real competition from open standards and FOSS platforms happened.People jumped on #JavaScript feet first, despite all its issues. Proprietary platforms on the web can't survive given a cross-platform environment.The one sore thumb is #Perl. It lost a lot of popularity due to TIMTOWTDI complexity + the announced breakage in Perl 6. #Scala contributors should take notes.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVhtXML3k7kHXKMJGa by alexelcu@social.alexn.org
       2023-05-16T08:32:42Z
       
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       Yes, it's true that in the libraries / frameworks land, people have been changing #JavaScript dependencies like they've been changing socks. But one should note that #JQuery is still around, or the #React cultural hegemony and consolidation that's going on. Established projects want good ROI, experiments are for startups.The lesson here, if you want to stay relevant, is to pick FOSS platforms that have been around for some time. As the popular ones do age like fine wine 😉
       
 (DIR) Post #AViYNoQEZRfRrQLU3s by ianturton@fosstodon.org
       2023-05-16T16:10:21Z
       
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       @alexelcu I;m still supporting and releasing updates to code I started writing last century, #java and servlets. I'm also pretty sure I could recompile my thesis code from the 1980s if I could be bothered to OCR it as its #posix flavoured C code.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVimqNslrf26crKTTM by ross@social.rossabaker.com
       2023-05-16T17:13:13Z
       
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       @alexelcu Perl 5 is still actively maintained and Perl 6 got a new name.  There are outcomes other than migration and death.  Maybe not good outcomes.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVjgIVlNeVRKefIUXA by mjgardner@social.sdf.org
       2023-05-17T05:13:43Z
       
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       @alexelcu IMHO the syntactical breakage from #Perl5 to #Perl6 (the latter now #RakuLang) was nothing compared to the community breakage. One begat the other, of course.Larry Wall’s initial announcement in 2000 characterized it not just as a community rewrite of the language, but of the #Perl community itself. Be careful what you wish for.