After a few years in tech you notice trends come and go, seemingly faster and faster every year, like tides in the ocean.
Is everyone who writes code condemned to run on a treadmill struggling to stay in place? In short, yes. Security patches, updates, and best practices are always evolving and it's our job to keep up.
Yet some things have remained.
| Tech | Year | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| SQL | 1974 | The language for data |
| Make | 1976 | Build recipes |
| vi | 1976 | Still the best text editor |
| ssh | 1976 | Get in there |
| Bash | 1989 | Still the best shell |
| Python | 1990 | Programming for humans |
| HTTP | 1991 | Deliver that HTML |
| HTML | 1993 | Websites |
| PostgreSQL | 1996 | Excellent database |
| curl | 1997 | download stuff |
| matplotlib | 2003 | plots |
| git | 2005 | version control |
These are tools I use every day. You don't have to be on a treadmill.