You only hurt yourself down the line. My last job had not improved their own product, processes, tools or frameworks, so everything was still stuck in the 90s. Their product was build on an discontinued an proprietary database and server system you never heard about, jQuery UI from 10 years ago and other BS.

However if you don't upskill yourself in this situation you will be unemployable in the future, because all other employers demand modern technologies, git, docker, unit testing etc., which I was yelled at in meetings for suggesting it.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 year ago (13 children)

git is considered modern?

I don't mean to bash git but I'd have assumed git is utilized in some capacity in every dev environment.

[–] SolarMech@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Git wasn't used all that much in the 2000s. As far as I know it became popular in the 2010s (though it was always a thing in some circles I think) and then just supplanted almost everything else.

Also keep in mind some shops tend to follow larger tech companies (microsoft, etc.) and their product offering. So even new products might not have been on git until MS went in that direction.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was released in 2005.

[–] SolarMech@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Takes time to become ubiquitous.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 2 points 1 year ago

For sure, I wanted to remind the date because it makes it obvious that it couldn't be much used in the 2000', even its second half is too short.

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