For every HTML 2.0 you might have tried, you were just as likely to have got stuck in the dead-end of Flash.

This one hurt. I had a decade plus old piece of tech debt from when they fucking killed flash before I could move on to new projects.

Flash had its use. I think a better analogy for me is web frameworks.

I remember in the mid 2000s there seems to be a new one every week. “LOL, you aren’t using Ruby On Rails? Peasant!” “LOL, you aren’t using Django? Peasant!”

Still seems to be the case with Electron, React, Node, blah blah blah.

Running to stand still.

“LOL, you aren’t using Django? Peasant!”

… I’m working on learning Django to get a job… should I stop? What should I use instead?

My webserver I’ve had for a while supports basically that.

I’m the wrong person to ask. My goto language is older than I am and hasn’t had a meaningful change since I was born.

cobol? fortran? c? assembly? so many options

C.

I exaggerate a bit. C99 lets you declare variables anywhere inside the block, not just the top.

Which still got me into an argument with a coworker who wanted me to declare every variable at the top of the block “in case” we port the code to a compiler that doesn’t support it.

C99 was 20 years old at that point.

Newer versions of C have generics “support” but I haven’t seen it in the wild yet.

I wonder what the last programming language will be…