You mean it’s hard to keep track, even though you’ve responded to the posts?
But if the post is concerning Java wouldn’t it be kinda of silly to bring up C++, C, Python, and JavaScript/TypeScript?
What I did say that it was foolish from a long term career perspective not to see where the market is going and stick with a platform that even the vendor said is maintenance mode as far as .Net Framework and Windows Forms - or even Windows only development period. If I did that, I would still be writing C++/MFC apps and VB6.
My animus toward Java is more that Oracle is a horrible steward of the platform and before that Sun was.
Just because I responded to all posts doesn't mean I am able to remember everything.
It is also foolish to have senior devs focus on selling themselves as Language X dev, without any other skill to offer.
I would rather have a VB 6 guy on the team that can do proper software architecture design, speaks fluently two European languages across our customer sites and is able weight what really matters across the delivery pipeline, than someone that knows all the cool and latest of .NET Core, without anything else as added value.
So what are the chances that someone who is doing VB6 in 2019 and is talking about he has been maintaining a legacy combination VB6 app that interfaces with C++/ATL DCOM objects is keeping up with the latest advances in architecture, development practices, etc. compared to someone who does a show a history of transistioning as technology changes?
As I said, having experience with modern technology is just “table stakes” to get your foot in the door if you want to stay at least partially hands on.
With the few unsolicited offers I’ve gotten to work for consulting companies just through my network - the travel requirements just won’t work for me right now - I kinda of know the requirements that most consulting companies are looking for.
Few of them are looking to do desktop Windows applications. Yeah some are looking for ways to run legacy Windows applications “in the cloud”, but most are looking for a way to convert them to the web and I haven’t come across any that actually want to start new greenfield desktop applications or for that matter .Net framework applications. Sadly, most aren’t even looking at .Net Core. Hopefully that will change.
Don’t get me wrong, until I chopped everything off of my resume I did before 2008, I did get a few recruiters who were looking for those older technologies, but why would I waste my time gaining experience in older technogies when there is a ridiculous amount of money to be made as a “digital transformation consultant” or by knowing cloud infrastructure and how to architect on top of it (pretty good at it), and the entire Docker ecosystem (learning it)
Which yeah, might have been the point, but hardly a picture of the global job market.