Couple ideas: Maybe it doesn't change often, but the developer pool is full of people early in their career who would rather find the next big thing and get in

Couple ideas: Maybe it doesn't change often, but the developer pool is full of people early in their career who would rather find the next big thing and get in on the ground level than be 3-5 years behind the curve on the existing stuff. And then they tweet all day about it. Maybe it does change often, because there's such a focus on build tools and developer ergonomics; and doing that in 201X lets you follow the treasure map made by the ppl who already figured it all out for systems programming decades ago. The kids are calling it transpilation and tree-shaking these days. They're writing APIs for GPU access, and assembly code for the bits that need to be really performant.