> It's all putting good for yourself over good for your customer and good for your employer.
Wouldn't this not happen if the employers just paid more? From what I understand, people do resume-driven development because they want to work at a place that will pay more at some point.
Fair point. There was a discussion about an article asking why companies don't pay their Developers more to stay recently [1].
If I was maintaining some decades-old legacy code and knew that my employer will most likely still be around and pay me a competitive salary for the rest of my life, I wouldn't mind just mastering COBOL.
But most companies go bust or lay off developers at some point, so keeping yourself employable by working with the latest tech stack is unfortunately quite a necessity.
That's what I've heard too, that most COBOL jobs don't pay that much and have been outsourced.
> If I was maintaining some decades-old legacy code and knew that my employer will most likely still be around and pay me a competitive salary for the rest of my life, I wouldn't mind just mastering COBOL.
That is how I feel too. In fact I'd prefer working on something that really lasts compared to the latest fad. But the differences in salary make this a difficult choices.
Wouldn't this not happen if the employers just paid more? From what I understand, people do resume-driven development because they want to work at a place that will pay more at some point.