2022 Review

 Looking forward we can see software having a before-Covid and after-Covid period, as well as a possible before-Ukrainian-Russian War and after-Ukrainian-Russian War but that is still in a period of uncertainty. It is not known at this time when and how that war will end. Cobol will still need to be written and maintained after this year. IBM has opened a learning portal to learn the whole IBM mainframe ecosystem, which has been forgotten in the midst of the Google, Amazon, and Microsoft cloud ecosystems. JavaScript is still a mess but many websites are being turded out with it, so there will remain work of this kind to do. Silicon Valley is going through a surge of firing for workers, which I predict will be absorbed into freelancing and work-at-home or working on apps that actually matter. You don't see Square laying off many people unlike the social media detritus and overpriced overhyped electric cars.

The Residue of Internet Explorer

 Microsoft announced that Internet Explorer is officially unsupported. A lot of JS crust still remains for the remaining users of IE. That can be used as measuring stick of how far into the future we have gone. By the way PHP is still used by 70% of websites so any cancellation of it will also be a ring in the big tree. 

The Triumverate

 RISC ISA chips are becoming feasible on the heels of fast and nimble ARM ISA chips designed by the likes of Apple (M Series chips) and Microsoft (Project Volterra, Surface). How RISC will fare in the server-space is to be seen, it appears as though much of the GNU ecosystem is starting to falter with ISA migration and duplication. This posts recommended niche skills: Cobol and Clojure. Mainstream: Python, Java, and Swift.