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Discussion on: Experienced developers: What concept have you never gotten around to learning and you've been fine without it?

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Ryan Latta

This one is interesting to me because there are things I wish I didn't have to know that I have had to know.

But here's the list of things I have never had to worry about (9 years):

  • Relational databases
  • CSS
  • Assembler

And for the things I have had to use:

  • Regular expressions
  • Big O
  • Trees/Graphs
  • Big/Little Endian
  • 64 vs 32-bit programming
  • Threading... THREADING!
  • JVM tuning
  • Manual memory management

Now I'm sharing this list because I personally think the software industry is converging on web development. There is actually a huge world out there beyond web development where some of these more esoteric seeming things have mattered.