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From my early teens to my late 20's, I spent a lot of free time coding. JS/HTML/CSS then Perl then PHP then Python then Node (so back where I started in a weird
by CalRobert 8y ago
From my early teens to my late 20's, I spent a lot of free time coding. JS/HTML/CSS then Perl then PHP then Python then Node (so back where I started in a weird sense). I didn't program professionally until I was thirty.
But now I actually like to play with my kid and travel when I'm not at work, and it's painfully obvious when people say "hey try a bit of Rust or Go or whatever" they don't mean on work hours.
This is a bit problematic, too, because I use Node all day long and I suspect it will not be a technology with a long future.
- mixmastamyk 8y agoHmm, don't know your work environment, but even at the most "fast paced" (ie poorly managed) places one can still squeeze a few hours a week to hack on a small research project. It's part of a software engineer's job to evaluate technologies and no one so far has chided me for doing so. Only the most cynically bad kind of manager would try, and some of those can be convinced otherwise when the utility explained.