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New tech stacks can be learned. If it fits the development and product, why not? Even if you have a personal dislike for it, you could still learn from it. I fi

New tech stacks can be learned. If it fits the development and product, why not? Even if you have a personal dislike for it, you could still learn from it. I find in-fighting, interpersonal quibbles and ridiculing of co-workers far more insufferable.

pier25 9y ago
What about moving to old stacks like... PHP?
- zelos 9y ago
  Then start calling recruiters like your life depends on it.
- thehardsphere 9y ago
  PHP's problem isn't its age, but that it was intended to do a very specific task in a very specific context, and people who came to it later lack a fundamental understanding of this. If, somehow through magic, PHP was invented today, it would still have this problem, which is the root of most of the other problems with PHP. I only mention this because some "old stacks" are good, in the sense that they are heavily battle tested, and people still use them because they've been successful over a number of years. You have to be able to use your judgement as a professional to determine whether the move to the "old stack" stems from a good reason or not before deciding to jump. (I personally would jump if I someone said "let's use PHP instead," but I don't think I would be in a job where PHP could be considered an alternative in the first place. Your situation could be different.)
copperx 9y ago
I've found that learning new tech is orders of magnitude simpler than whiners on the internet make it seem. I put off learning Rails years ago because post after post talked about how hard it was to get it right, how the person behind CDBaby totally failed to make Rails work for him, etc., etc. Then I sat down to learn it, imagining it would be a long month, but I learned the basics in 2 days. The exact same thing happened with React. I put it off for so long, thinking it was so hard after reading so many posts. It turns out that it's pretty straightforward. There's still an element of fear before approaching anything new. A voice in my head says "maybe I'm not smart enough anymore to understand this new tech, which looks like it was engineered by aliens." I need to remind myself that I have been able to understand and master everything I have attempted. But the posts out there make it seem learning something new is very hard.
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pier25 9y ago

What about moving to old stacks like... PHP?

zelos 9y ago
Then start calling recruiters like your life depends on it.
thehardsphere 9y ago
PHP's problem isn't its age, but that it was intended to do a very specific task in a very specific context, and people who came to it later lack a fundamental understanding of this. If, somehow through magic, PHP was invented today, it would still have this problem, which is the root of most of the other problems with PHP. I only mention this because some "old stacks" are good, in the sense that they are heavily battle tested, and people still use them because they've been successful over a number of years. You have to be able to use your judgement as a professional to determine whether the move to the "old stack" stems from a good reason or not before deciding to jump. (I personally would jump if I someone said "let's use PHP instead," but I don't think I would be in a job where PHP could be considered an alternative in the first place. Your situation could be different.)

copperx 9y ago

I've found that learning new tech is orders of magnitude simpler than whiners on the internet make it seem. I put off learning Rails years ago because post after post talked about how hard it was to get it right, how the person behind CDBaby totally failed to make Rails work for him, etc., etc. Then I sat down to learn it, imagining it would be a long month, but I learned the basics in 2 days. The exact same thing happened with React. I put it off for so long, thinking it was so hard after reading so many posts. It turns out that it's pretty straightforward. There's still an element of fear before approaching anything new. A voice in my head says "maybe I'm not smart enough anymore to understand this new tech, which looks like it was engineered by aliens." I need to remind myself that I have been able to understand and master everything I have attempted. But the posts out there make it seem learning something new is very hard.

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