I find that this pace is a symptom of the Javascript culture of popularity. It is a hallmark achievement in the career of a Javascript developer to be the maint

I find that this pace is a symptom of the Javascript culture of popularity. It is a hallmark achievement in the career of a Javascript developer to be the maintainer of a popular library or framework and monetize their popularity by way of training videos, talks, books, and buy-in from companies building upon their work. It's not that frightening to me, a mid-30's developer, at this point. I find the fundamentals are more important than the fads and it's relatively easy for me at this point to separate the wheat from the chaff. Is Redux or the Elm architecture good? Yes -- it's a left-fold over a state tree; great! I want that. Are new things coming out constantly? Yes. Some of them are incremental improvements. That's a good feature to have. It means there are a horde of passionate people constantly improving the tooling and libraries available. I wish some of my preferred languages received even a fraction of the attention that JS gets. We live in interesting times.