You want to stay relevant as a software developer for the next 10 years?
You want to stay relevant as a software developer for the next 10 years?
These are 3 major things you should focus on:
- ActiveX
- OLE
- ATL
(c) 1998
This tweet made me remember my own pondering of the exact same question and how hard it is to guess what is going to be relevant in the future.
A lot of people answer that by saying that you have to always learn but the question is not "Should I learn?" but "What I should learn?".
Unfortunately, no one can predict the future. I would even say that the question itself is flawed.
I'm reading Farnam Street blog for some time already and one of the last posts goes deeper into this problem: What’s Staying the Same?
If you start looking for things that are likely to stay the same you will find a lot of things that are worth learning and they should be relevant a lot longer than the newest fad.
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