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That's silly. GWT was a solid platform for quite a large number of years, and is still used in quite a large number of enterprises. Also, there are a lot of go
by stickfigure 8y ago
That's silly.
GWT was a solid platform for quite a large number of years, and is still used in quite a large number of enterprises. Also, there are a lot of good ideas in there that the JS community is only just catching up to, like dead code elimination.
A lot of modern javascript/typescript syntax is inspired by CoffeeScript. And CS is so trivially easy to learn that "saved a few brain cells" sounds like intellectual laziness.
There's a fair argument to be made for not jumping on the bleeding edge. But your examples are all mature technologies that had good solid lifespans during which people used them to build successful products. If those are fads to you, I'm guessing you must still do most of your work in C?
- pjmlp 8y agoPlain old good Java, C#, C++, JavaScript and SQL. Since 1993, C only when not allowed to use C++ instead.
- mastazi 8y agoHonestly, have you ever stumbled upon a job offer requiring any of those while looking for a job? I'm not saying that job offers requiring e.g. coffeescript don't exist, I'm asking how much more likely you are to find a job that suits you because you know coffeescript?
- i_made_a_booboo 8y agoI think job postings hide those requirements by not advertising them on purpose. They just kind of spring them on you in the first day and if you don't know it you will pick it up. Which is mildly ironic because they advertise all the technologies which you must have 5 years experience in or you won't be considered. I kinda don't buy it anymore.
- stickfigure 8y agoToday? Not many coffeescript projects getting started today since ES6+ adopted much of the syntax. But there were tons of GWT and CS jobs before... actually, there still are plenty of GWT jobs.