Future of the Software Developer

Question

I am a software developer (.Net) and have 5 years experience on same. My problem is what would be the future of my carrier. Would I be able to hang on the same filed or have to change to any new technology. I have no clue what the future trends will be. Could someone share some ideas what the things I should learn and any platforms. If I am changing my path what it should be(ex: I heard Information Security is more popular) like wise.

Gopi Chand · Answer

Hello..!!! In my opinion you should hang on what you know (.Net) and have experience but with one or more trending technologies (big data cyber security software defined networks boimetrics etc.) as backup in case future of .Net diminishes. Thank You.

Vincent Maverick Durano · Answer

What are those technologies? do you have any idea As a software developer you need to keep up with the new technologies to enhance more your skills. If you are stuck in a company that uses an outdated/old versions of technologies then that doesn't mean that you will just stop there. What I am trying to say is that learn new things during your free time to cope up with the new technologies. Participate in an online-community like C# corner for you to know what's going on with the technology nowadays. Here are some of the technologies that are hip right now: ASP.NET 5 MVC 6 SPA with client-side api like AngularJS Ember.js Knockout.js and Backbone.js Xamarin - A tools for building cross- platform mobile ( e.g IOS Android and Windows) Azure Services HTML 5 C# 6 and EF new features I'm pretty sure there are still lot of new technologies out there. Just make sure to choose the platform (Web Development Mobile DBA IT Admin etc..) that you are most interested to work with because that matters most.

Akhil Garg · Answer

Hi You can work on new version of .net and step into cloud Microsoft Azure and there are lot of new things happening in azureVisual Studio WPF. windows 10 is also coming and you can build universal app. Try all these. Keep learning enjoy learning.

Randima egodawatta · Answer

What are those technologies? do you have any idea

Akhil Garg · Answer

Hi Future for software developer in .net in pretty good but you need to keep learning new things and technology that is trending in market.