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While true, the "pushing" being done is a very small compared to only the "development" of said technologies. The exact words of the parent where: > I wonder h

While true, the "pushing" being done is a very small compared to only the "development" of said technologies. The exact words of the parent where: > I wonder how much the industry could advance if we could simply persuade every developer to learn Java Postgres. And that is preceded by what I can only described as a bunch of undue mischaracterization of several languages and technologies, all of which definitely seems to imply that "yeah, all that other stuff is just a bunch of fads, why don't we stick to the real deal and all write Java." Now, I don't want to be unkind to Java here. It's true that Java is an incredibly powerful language and there are a wide variety of technologies and tools that are absolutely incredible that you can only get via the Java ecosystem. But that can be said of many languages, e.g. C++/C. I think what the GP may have meant, and which I do agree with, is that our industry would progress if we as developers spent a bit more time learning about the context and history of current and past solutions. We'd probably re-invent the wheel a bit less often. But I don't want to limit that recommendation to "learn Java Postgres". I think Java developers might benefit from examining the benefits of a language like Haskell, Python programmers may benefit from a language with strong typing, such as C++/Rust/Go, that Unix lovers might learn a lot from examining the Windows NT kernel API's, and so on. If we examine the things that aren't close to us, the things with which we're the least familiar, that's when I believe the most fruitful learning can occur.

flukus 10y ago
I took the GP in a very figurative way as well. A lot of the learning being done at the moment though is simply framework churn, there are developers out their familiar with a million web and client side frameworks that would have been much better served learning SQL. Our apps would be better if we focused more and learning about usability and our users than on CSS compilers. As an industry I think we're under serving everyone right now, people have machines a thousand times more powerful than a couple of decades ago but what they can do with them is almost identical.

flukus 10y ago

I took the GP in a very figurative way as well. A lot of the learning being done at the moment though is simply framework churn, there are developers out their familiar with a million web and client side frameworks that would have been much better served learning SQL. Our apps would be better if we focused more and learning about usability and our users than on CSS compilers. As an industry I think we're under serving everyone right now, people have machines a thousand times more powerful than a couple of decades ago but what they can do with them is almost identical.