Lost into Technology

From: Hans Moller (hansihans_at_gmail.com)
Date: 01/13/05 

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:35:02 +0200

Every new year we face with a brand new language and we start to think about
if we should learn it or not. Delphi programmers are talking about if they
should move to C#, C++ programmers are worry about if their language will
always be supported on Win platform(not on Linux). When you switch to an
another language of course you are not losing the things you learnt before
but it takes time to used to it. You are trying to develop a highly
complicated internet based data management system or a simple calculater
program, not makes any difference. Switch to a new language makes you to
step on the brake.

Don't understand me wrong, i'm not talking about we shouldn't learn new
things. Of course we should but some of the experience we gained till that
time is losing because of these things. When the technology should bring the
easiness into our life, it makes everything more harder than before. Think
about the C++ developers. They were so comfortable with the Borland/MS VS
but suddenly they saw that their existing language is not popular as before.
There is a language appear which has a name of C# and you start to think
about if you should learn that too. But you are very experienced with C++
and you can develop wide range of professional applications easily and
feeling comfortable with your IDE and existing tools on it. After a terrible
confusion, you decide to learn C# too. Yes you are not losing your existing
experience but the previous experience will never be enough to develop
professional applications with this new language easily as you did before.
Our futures shouldn't be dependent on the technology company's commercial
plans.

Maybe this situation is not that much terrible for Linux developers. There
isn't anything changed with the C++ developers on Linux. That should be one
of the greatest feature of the opensource software development and it's
community. They are not effected by the commercial tricks.

I really bored about to change(nearly every year) the tools i'm using
frequently. This is why i don't want to be a Windows developer anymore. I'm
not a Linux expert but from now on i'll completely move to Linux. If Borland
will continue to work on Kylix, this process would be more easier for me of
course... Hope they hear me :))

Regards,

- Hans

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