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> We don't even have to talk about the extremely low average lifetime of libraries in the JS world; it's like a perpetual popularity contest! This is the awful
by JustSomeNobody 10y ago
> We don't even have to talk about the extremely low average lifetime of libraries in the JS world; it's like a perpetual popularity contest!
This is the awful truth of programming in general today. Sadly, it's a train not many of us can jump off of because of employ-ability. If popular tool/framework/language/etc is not on your resume, you're not getting called back. If popular tool/framework/language/etc is not being used by anything in your Github, you're not getting called back.
- Cyph0n 10y agoDefinitely true in general, but I think it's more noticeable in the JS world. Look at Java + Spring, C# + ASP.NET, Python + Django, Ruby + Rails: these are all examples of popular frameworks that have been around for much longer than any single JS library (except jQuery), and are all still in high demand.
- tracker1 10y agoI believe ASP.Net and Spring predate jQuery.
- cloudjacker 10y agoThis is primarily a JS thing. Many nontechnical people that look over your resume don't know that Node Backbone React Angular and the random data visualization libraries are all "Javascript"