> Learn faster (better memory) And yet, when I needed to learn XSLT (and then React), I was able to simply inhale it in one go because of my experience of simi

> Learn faster (better memory) And yet, when I needed to learn XSLT (and then React), I was able to simply inhale it in one go because of my experience of similar technologies and functional programming, which come about from having been doing this quite a while. Younger and quicker developers took a lot longer over it and to find their feet because there were many new concepts there for them. As you get older, there's less to you haven't already learned.