Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "whats wrong with new devs?" video.

  1. Programming is hard and interesting exactly because we have a moving target. Requirements change all the time and the underlying libraries and operating systems change, too. Any long term project is going to need a lot of change even if you don't pick up any new programming languages. And you should learn at least basics of many programming languages. I think most languages I've learned have teached me something that's worth using in other programming languages, too. For example, Perl makes using hashmaps and regular expressions really easy, Eiffel teaches you about Design-by-contract, preconditions, postconditions and design invariants. You can definitely use those some ideas in C++ and other low level languages. Rust is worth learning to make the ownership concept really clear. A well written C++ will use ownership concept all the time but the language itself doesn't support it like Rust does so you're on your own even though you have to embrace the ownership concept or you'll have broken memory handling in long run.
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