Same here. I've seen so many technologies at this point in my life, that picking up new ones is easy. It's simply a case of quickly grokking which variation (o

Same here. I've seen so many technologies at this point in my life, that picking up new ones is easy. It's simply a case of quickly grokking which variation (on an existing technological approach) the new technology is taking. There really aren't that many new groundbreaking ideas in tech; however, there's a lot of tribalism and silos (especially within individual programming language communities) which mean that old discoveries are often forgotten for a while until they are finally resurrected in a new guise.