What are the most timeless development tools, etc., and why?
Curious to see what people think are the most “timeless” tools, languages, frameworks. How old something needs to be to be “timeless” is subjective. Would be interesting to see if there’s convergence on particular areas. Might provide a nice overview of tools (or even processes, methodologies) for a younger developer to focus on.
I recently picked up game development again as a hobby and was pleasantly surprised that SDL still is around and hasn’t changed much in 10 years (which is a long time in game development).
Browser-based JavaScript is also very stable if you stay away from the frameworks in the sense that stuff which worked 20 years ago mostly still works today (although much stuff has been added of course).
Frameworks like Flask are also an anchor of stability and thankfully haven’t changed much, at least in terms of API stability.
All project management eventually ends up in Excel. So I'll say Excel.
Both C and SQL are ancient on a tech-time scale and are still widely used.
Pencils, keyboards, magnetic tape, System/360.
I’m not sure those are things for a younger developer to focus on, though.
I am going to have to say the vi editor. I was using it over a vt100 terminal in 2001. I am still using it as vim for my dev work in WFH over vpn.
Emacs was first released 44 years back
whiteboards date back to at least the 1980's