This is a great thread. What I have appreciated most is seeing the long-term vision that older programmers have - thinking in terms of change over decades, not years.
Working in the web industry, the second-hardest thing I find (after pace of change/fascination with "New! Shiny!") is the vision of people can be measured in months to 3-4 years. Applications are not built with the thought they will be running in a decade; it's assumed they'll be rewritten in New Language X with New Architecture Y long before that.
To older programmers: if you work in the web field, how do you handle/deal with this?
Working in the web industry, the second-hardest thing I find (after pace of change/fascination with "New! Shiny!") is the vision of people can be measured in months to 3-4 years. Applications are not built with the thought they will be running in a decade; it's assumed they'll be rewritten in New Language X with New Architecture Y long before that.
To older programmers: if you work in the web field, how do you handle/deal with this?