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Is it actually always a good idea to keep yourself up-to-date with the hottest tech stacks? We picked up the first angular, because of the “keep up mantra”. Th
by moksly 7y ago
Is it actually always a good idea to keep yourself up-to-date with the hottest tech stacks?
We picked up the first angular, because of the “keep up mantra”. That turned out to be a complete waste of resources when the second version released. I’m not saying that it can’t be valuable, but these days we build 70% of our stuff with python, Django for web with a minimal amount of JS because it turned out our clients actually didn’t want SPAs. The rest we build in C#. When I look at the job market in my region of Denmark, almost every job is for JAVA, C# or PHP. No-one is hiring for Rust, graphql, go or any of the other hipster languages / frameworks. People are hiring for modern Angular (along with C#), but no one is hiring for the original version. So it’s frankly entirely possible to skip entire “hot tech stacks” without it being a disadvantage.
If you ask me, you shouldn’t pick up things until you need them. Unless it’s for fun, but who learns a new web-dev related framework for fun?
- malux85 7y ago> Unless it’s for fun, but who learns a new web-dev related framework for fun? I do, and I suspect many others on this site too. Do you know where you’re posting?
- nixpulvis 7y ago> Do you know where you’re posting? Didn't you hear, this is a job forum now! Seriously though, I couldn't agree more. We must even make toy frameworks to discover what new ideas are worthwhile. I think a lot of the issues are some people trying to take the toys to work too soon. But that's another problem.
- nixpulvis 7y agoIt's definitely not true that no one is hiring Rust or Go. It probably is true it'll be more likely at a startup, but larger scale operations could easily be using either at this point. It depends a lot what kind of programming job you're looking for. Personally, I think any programmer would learn something valuable by playing around with Rust specifically. But that's just my 2¢.
- AYBABTME 7y agoPerhaps outside of Norway is differe, because people are definitely hiring for things like Go, and I bet Rust will be next.
- ghoshbishakh 7y ago> Who learns a new web-dev related framework for fun? Lot of us :D
- cle 7y ago> If you ask me, you shouldn’t pick up things until you need them. It's worth learning enough to know when you need them, and when you don't (strengths and weaknesses). That's the bare minimum for me. The next level of understanding is pretty different, either I'm seriously considering using the technology or I'm intrinsically interested in how it was built. I often dig into the latter if I think I can learn something from how it was made.
- simongray 7y ago> When I look at the job market in my region of Denmark, almost every job is for JAVA, C# or PHP. No-one is hiring for Rust, graphql, go or any of the other hipster languages / frameworks. Udviklings- og Forenklingsstyrelsen has a huge project written in Clojure, ClojureScript and R and they're hiring all the time.
- briajens 7y agoDepends on what boards you look on. In the startup scene there are a lot of Go, elixir and Ruby on Rails jobs. A lot of founders, myself included are trying to get people with these new competences Ps: I also want To find a Dane who knows vue + tailwind. Impossible to dig up so please go learn ;-)
- AlchemistCamp 7y agoSounds like if you built a startup using something more interesting, it could be a substantial hiring advantage.
- moksly 7y agoI live in region midt, I know the Copenhagen region has a lot of exciting languages and techs available, but out here everyone is terrible conservative. I mean, JAVA is popular but there wasn’t a single kotlin job in 2019.
- cutler 7y agoIt's not just Denmark - it's a metropolis phenomenon. Here in the UK, as in most countries, once you move outside the major cities Java, C# and PHP dominate the job market. Even JS and Python roles are thin on the ground.