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I can relate. I wrote an essay on this a while back: https://www.nemil.com/musings/shinyandnew.html https://www.nemil.com/musings/shinyandnew.html Excerpt: Pi

by nemild 9y ago

I can relate. I wrote an essay on this a while back: https://www.nemil.com/musings/shinyandnew.html https://www.nemil.com/musings/shinyandnew.html Excerpt: Pity the modern web or mobile app developer on Hacker News. As a full stack startup developer in 2012, you were building websites using Ruby/Rails on the backend, Backbone/Coffeescript/Underscore on the frontend, while deploying your app with Capistrano (or the relevant Python analog). By 2013, you'd transitioned to Node/Express/Mongo on the backend, Grunt/Ember on the frontend. In 2014, you'd switched whole hog over to the MEAN stack (now with promises), but experimented with Koa and considered a shift to Go (after the Express core contributor made the jump). In 2015, you're using Gulp/ES2015/React on the front end, Express/Go on the backend, React Native over the native mobile languages, and slowly transitioning your system over to microservices with Docker. Soon, you'll be transitioning to Phoenix, figuring out if Angular 2 is the right choice - and maybe even plotting a world where Go can work on Android and where an open sourced Swift might fit into your stack. (I’m clearly exaggerating for effect, though this is a fair representation of what is popular in HN headlines)

katzgrau 9y ago
One minor upside to the rapid change is that I can sit out an entire stack and hop back into relevancy with some totally new stack a year later.
twhb 9y ago
I'm not sure HN headlines - even ones like "we rewrote our codebase with X" - indicate that people are actually rotating libraries quickly. Rather, they indicate our quickly-shifting curiosity, and cherry-pick instances of people actually acting on it because they're interesting. Tellingly, the "rewrite" blog posts usually are coming not from the fad preceding the current, but something much older.

by nemild 9y ago

katzgrau 9y ago

One minor upside to the rapid change is that I can sit out an entire stack and hop back into relevancy with some totally new stack a year later.

twhb 9y ago

I'm not sure HN headlines - even ones like "we rewrote our codebase with X" - indicate that people are actually rotating libraries quickly. Rather, they indicate our quickly-shifting curiosity, and cherry-pick instances of people actually acting on it because they're interesting. Tellingly, the "rewrite" blog posts usually are coming not from the fad preceding the current, but something much older.