Everything Old Is New Again

 March 2021

Wordpress has reinvented itself. Gutenberg and a veritable tsunami of plugin and theme options have made coding unnecessary for the average personal site. (It's mobile forward, too.)

Hot on it's heels, jQuery has updated and is going for revitalization.

On the back end, the hot languages are...C#?!! And Ruby On Rails?!

And the cool IDE is Visual Studio?!?! What's next, .NET?!?!?!

What is going on?!

If you look through want ads for developer and similar jobs, you'll see lots of requests for very old knowledge bases. The glass half empty view is: the good jobs now are about putting more and more duct tape on broken pipes.

The glass half full view, though, is:

Experience matters.

The path for a mature developer is complex. We have to know all the new frameworks very well, no doubt about it. But having done things the hard way - perl back end, Actionscript front end, inline non-DRY code all over each page - counts. And knowing which way is better is priceless.

Look on the bright side - Internet Explorer is never, ever coming back.

I hope.