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Does 28 still count as young? I've been doing some form of web programming for 8 or 9 years now and it's almost impossible to keep up with JS/Node/NPM/100 diffe

Does 28 still count as young? I've been doing some form of web programming for 8 or 9 years now and it's almost impossible to keep up with JS/Node/NPM/100 different poor re-implementations of 'make'. Luckily there are big enterprises that provide job security without chasing every new framework.

cholantesh 10y ago
I'm 28 myself, with experience primarily in web and ETL. I'm finding that even the big orgs are doing buzzword fishing on their jobs descriptions. MV* frameworks for largely static sites and data sets, served up to small, internal audiences, etc. Strongly weighing my options for moving into another space such as embedded systems or DSP, where the problems are a bit more tangible.
- newbear 10y ago
  I feel like I got into programming years back ( I chose JS/web focus for future job prospect reasons) because I wanted to be introverted and solve problems. Instead it's become an extroverts heaven of circlejerk-buzzword-sixfigurehunting-pretension. I kid - there are amazing people doing amazing things but maybe embedded systems or dsp is more what I'm looking for?
badosu 10y ago
These days I made a project as a test for a job. It required a SPA framework, I am pretty much used to Backbone but wanted to use this opportunity to check how are the new shiny things these days. So I picked up Vue.js The architecture is pretty clean, minimalistic and well thought. Soon I realized how terrible documented most of the tools on js land are these days, it was very frustrating to see that most of the options are not well documented, so that you must find a suitable blog post or tutorial from someone that is used with all the quirks. This is not to say that the issue is with JS itself or it's ecosystem, it may be or not, but this little anecdote is what I can share from this experience. I hope this is just an exception.

cholantesh 10y ago

I'm 28 myself, with experience primarily in web and ETL. I'm finding that even the big orgs are doing buzzword fishing on their jobs descriptions. MV* frameworks for largely static sites and data sets, served up to small, internal audiences, etc. Strongly weighing my options for moving into another space such as embedded systems or DSP, where the problems are a bit more tangible.

newbear 10y ago
I feel like I got into programming years back ( I chose JS/web focus for future job prospect reasons) because I wanted to be introverted and solve problems. Instead it's become an extroverts heaven of circlejerk-buzzword-sixfigurehunting-pretension. I kid - there are amazing people doing amazing things but maybe embedded systems or dsp is more what I'm looking for?

badosu 10y ago

These days I made a project as a test for a job. It required a SPA framework, I am pretty much used to Backbone but wanted to use this opportunity to check how are the new shiny things these days. So I picked up Vue.js The architecture is pretty clean, minimalistic and well thought. Soon I realized how terrible documented most of the tools on js land are these days, it was very frustrating to see that most of the options are not well documented, so that you must find a suitable blog post or tutorial from someone that is used with all the quirks. This is not to say that the issue is with JS itself or it's ecosystem, it may be or not, but this little anecdote is what I can share from this experience. I hope this is just an exception.