In this episode, I had the pleasure of talking with my mate and colleague Darryl Ware, who I worked with in Brisbane (Australia) oh so many years ago, about the changing face of tech in Brisbane. He shared with me (as I've been living in Europe for the last 15 years) that it's changed from a broadly PHP-based city to a much more Golang-centric place (along with Node and Java).

We also talked about C-based languages and how they rise and fall over the course of time. Then, on top of that, we talked about how you can, if it's possible, to constantly keep up with technology, if it's worth it, and when it's okay to just walk away and start something new.

Some key takeaways are:

• Tech is very transitory
• PHP is fading in Brisbane
• Cloud providers can dissuade people from using PHP (I strongly agree)
• Nothing stays the same in tech and life
• When do you stop adding language features
• Is it C double-plus or C++? I think we all know the answer
• PHP had a poor reputation for years because it had an exceedingly low barrier to entry, but it's so much more now
• Perl 6 took too long to come to market
• Composer ROCKS!

Links

• Brisbane, Australia
• Corporate Agile-Fall
• Business Buzzword Bingo
• Bob Martin on SOLID Principles

Guests: Darryl Ware (@darrylware).

Hosted By: Matthew Setter.

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