fulminatorz68

I can write kernel patches. Any good SA >= 10 years with C can. And we don't because it is a symptom we notice and not the problem and we are interested in a fix only as a way to survive till the cure. Kudos to the rest of your post. God bless the elders in this industry.

Very hard to teach. How are you guys doing it? I'm trying unix bash shell scripting which I picked up at the age of 29 pretty easily and felt like I could do useful things repeatably in 4 months?

My programming origin was trs-80 and basic, and for the last 20 years C, TCL, python and csh|bash|awk|sed.

I'd suggest your experience|expertise is lacking. My first couple of months were bad but then I learned to appreciate the expressiveness and facility of even a bad shell language and the open horizon of how things were done. This comment seems to be classic troll or sour grapes.

I'd suggest the same (perspective) to you. I understand fully what you are trying to say but this world is not about pity and never has been. It is about making the best of things and helping who you can as you can while remaining sane.

No, I wouldn't (having developed since 1995) but I will state that having dealt with multi-platform builds and development for bsd and linux + darwin (until recent iterations of macos) that solaris is a pitfa, just as much as macos, and one is enough.

Who actually uses these glorified IDEs? No one I've hired.

Never. You have sufficient expertise to make the solution work and enough exposure to the code base to modify core if necessary. Oracle: never an option.

I'd see only the pain of migrating applications and learning new administration tools. Solaris was dead long before oracle killed it -- to me.

This culture of optimization and mutation is pretty out of control.

Hard to make $$ in a country that worships established wealth without getting into the old boys club. You can make great money with a good idea but working two jobs for 170K gets old.