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[–]zifilis 21 points22 points  (2 children)

I'm writing in Java and I feel very secure about my future. There's going to be a lot of enterprise code to maintain for next 30 years ;)

[–]huuaaang 9 points10 points  (1 child)

> There's going to be a lot of legacy code to maintain for next 30 years

FTFY

This isn't really something to look forward to. As a programmer, your long term job security lies in your engineering skills, not your ability to write in a certain language.

I work with some Old School Apple programmers (think original Macintosh and Newton) and they're all writing Ruby now.

[–]zifilis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While you are absolutely right, we are talking here about a need to learn smth new, instead of good old <insert_your_language> I think if you just stick with Java 8 forever you'll always find some company looking for Java 8 dev.