TheCodeRover

5 年前discuss

I have found overwork has caused the symptoms you describe, but not so much getting older. As a developer in their early 50s, I have certainly noticed becoming slightly slower, but in no way less creative. I have seen colleagues work effectively well into their 60s, but I suspect this is different between people.

TheCodeRover

5 年前discuss

Personally I found that with age, the ‘excitement’ you mention gave way to a deeper level of understanding and satisfaction (50’s here).Sure over the years some things were more interesting than others, buts its what you make of it. Software development provides an endless set of challenges, generally pays well and from my own observation it is also possible to work well into later life.

TheCodeRover

7 年前discuss

I tried NodeJS because of the appeal of JavaScript on both the client & server. That side didn't really work out because client Side JavaScript is just so different.

As a web server it worked well. I put Nodejs behind HAProxy & Varnish and ended up with something reasonably robust; good for both dynamic & static content. These days I use if more for server side data handling and it is surprising what you can throw at it really - data collection and even some processing.

As you said its really good for getting stuff done.

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