Ask HN: Top Skills to Learn for 2023?

Terraform, being Cloud-agnostic, low level programming

I think systems thinking is needed more than ever. There are way too many myopic decisions being made all across the board.

For specific programming languages, I think Elixir is a great investment.

Edit: Some systems reading if anyone is curious:

* Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows

* Designing Freedom by Stafford Beer. I also recommend anything by Stafford Beer.

* Anything by Christopher Alexander

* Systems Thinking For Social Change: A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results: A new to me book that I haven't read but looks promising.

I think this is just the wrong way to go about learning things.

There are 3 things to learn at any given time:

1. That which never changes i.e. humans, yourself and others

2. What you need to know to succeed right now i.e. deeper in your current tools and systems, or those you'll need to use next month

3. Whatever intrigues you. Maybe this is what you're asking: what's new to be intrigued by?

To the latter, I would say to start learning machine learning if you haven't already.

3 keywords is serious. 4 is a joke

Cloud agnostic? Not really. All the resources are cloud specific. You can't configure anything of any complexity without knowing details about your specific provider.

Low level? It's about as far from "low level" as you can get. I would barely call it a programming language.

That being said, I do think it is a worthwhile skill to learn.