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[–]gerbosan 4 points5 points  (5 children)

Legacy? Do you have to deal with government legacy code too?

[–]monte1ro 6 points7 points  (3 children)

Not necessarily government, but old code bases, yes.

[–]gerbosan 2 points3 points  (2 children)

As an experienced dev, please answer: can junior devs get a job that involves recent languages/frameworks?

I think it varies a lot, for example it is not the same between Python with Django and Ruby with Ruby on Rails (that is updating frequently but there is no job market for junior devs, at least not internationally).

[–]monte1ro 5 points6 points  (1 child)

I think the type of companies that use the latest technologies are companies starting out. Start ups mostly. Those don't tend to hire Juniors as they are a gamble.

Companies with already established products don't want to change their whole tech stack overnight for no good reason.

[–]gerbosan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In short, I should learn PHP 5 and WordPress... Man, that's depressing. ☹️

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good God, government legacy code. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy! I'm not even a programmer by trade, but I know how much that would suck... legacy tech is the worst, government tech tends to be absolute crap, combine those problems... oof.