[TikiTDO]

10 years isn't really all that much, is it? From my experience that's around how long it takes for developers to get a big head about how much they know, but 5 years less than what it takes to learn to respect how much they actually don't know about the different aspects of the field, and the real scale of challenges that have to be solved (both the technical, and the human).

Also, not all experience is equal. Someone that's spent 10 years working on 4 or 5 different systems in totally different problem domains, written in totally different languages, and operating in totally different ecosystems is going to have a very different view of development from someone that's spent 10 years doing essentially the same thing over and over again.

This guy seems to have a very focused view of the correct approach to problems. He's familiar with the tools that linux offers (which I agree are great), but he doesn't seem to respect the scale of specialization it takes to use and maintain those tools effectively on a large scale. Also, there is no mention of the cost to rebuild existing systems in terms of developer time, the mental cost to re-train all of the developers, as well as the time to migrate and train the users.

Ironically, I remember getting into debates like this back in the mid-2000s when I was first starting to think I had it all figured out. The points I made back then were more or less the same things I see now in the article above. It's quite nostalgic, though it definitely makes me feel older than I like.