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Competent (web) developers can roll with changing technology, leveraging fundamental skill and understanding; beyond superficial differences, the basics haven’t
by saila 8y ago
Competent (web) developers can roll with changing technology, leveraging fundamental skill and understanding; beyond superficial differences, the basics haven’t changed all that much in the past two decades. “Expert beginners” seem to complain about rapidly-changing technology (as well as basics like proper usage of version control); they also make giant messes, which can’t possibly be cost effective.
- blub 8y ago"the basics haven’t changed all that much in the past two decades" I did some front and back-end development in the mid 00s and almost nothing still applies. Even the HTML standard is different, CSS has gotten much more complicated and JS has changed immensely. Most importantly, people don't build web sites any more, they use various frameworks to build so-called SPAs. The front-end is in eternal turmoil and front-end skills expire fast, good thing I got off this carousel.
- matt-snider 8y agoI don't want to trivialize learning modern frontend development with a clean slate, because it is a long process to get familiar with the tools. But I think those are the details and not the basics. Whether you use html templates rendered server side, or JSX in an SPA, the experience is quite familiar.