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That's understandable, you learn one tool - hammer at 20, you treat all problem as nail. Screws? Hammer it and lock with duct tape. Later on you learn another t

That's understandable, you learn one tool - hammer at 20, you treat all problem as nail. Screws? Hammer it and lock with duct tape. Later on you learn another tool - screwdriver. Now you see screw, you use screwdriver to tighten it. The problem is it takes years to learn one tool, and it take years to see one case as screws, another as nails, etc. EDIT: OTOH, as you gain more experience, you can classify problem better and look or even develop tools that solve that particular problem. Which is why angular / react / vue is developed and popular.

mgkimsal 6y ago
> The problem is it takes years to learn one tool, Somewhat. You can't become an expert in a matter of months, but by the same token, my PHP and Java skills didn't get demonstrably better between years 8 and years 9 of experience. Other things outside the language got better. One was my ability to understand problems and potential solutions (from both technical and business/operations perspectives). Another was the ecosystems around those languages. Best practices, documentation and tooling all evolved to deal with new needs, new hardware, etc. The ability to adapt to those changes and understand the role of the core language/tech in addressing problems is key. Figuring out which new tools (or language features, perhaps) will bring the most value to you and your projects is as much as a skill as learning the language itself - you'll never know every single aspect of everything, so learn to accept that.
- fendy3002 6y ago
  > Somewhat. You can't become an expert in a matter of months, but by the same token, my PHP and Java skills didn't get demonstrably better between years 8 and years 9 of experience. > Figuring out which new tools (or language features, perhaps) will bring the most value to you and your projects is as much as a skill as learning the language itself Exactly in my view, programming language such as PHP and Java isn't tool, they are a set of tools. However the toolset are different between each programming language, let's say that in PHP the hammer has larger head than Java. Let's say that programming features such as iteration (for / while loop) and conditional expression (if) are tools, that can be used to solve specific problems. Well sorry if the analogy or metaphor isn't really accurate...

mgkimsal 6y ago

> The problem is it takes years to learn one tool, Somewhat. You can't become an expert in a matter of months, but by the same token, my PHP and Java skills didn't get demonstrably better between years 8 and years 9 of experience. Other things outside the language got better. One was my ability to understand problems and potential solutions (from both technical and business/operations perspectives). Another was the ecosystems around those languages. Best practices, documentation and tooling all evolved to deal with new needs, new hardware, etc. The ability to adapt to those changes and understand the role of the core language/tech in addressing problems is key. Figuring out which new tools (or language features, perhaps) will bring the most value to you and your projects is as much as a skill as learning the language itself - you'll never know every single aspect of everything, so learn to accept that.

fendy3002 6y ago
> Somewhat. You can't become an expert in a matter of months, but by the same token, my PHP and Java skills didn't get demonstrably better between years 8 and years 9 of experience. > Figuring out which new tools (or language features, perhaps) will bring the most value to you and your projects is as much as a skill as learning the language itself Exactly in my view, programming language such as PHP and Java isn't tool, they are a set of tools. However the toolset are different between each programming language, let's say that in PHP the hammer has larger head than Java. Let's say that programming features such as iteration (for / while loop) and conditional expression (if) are tools, that can be used to solve specific problems. Well sorry if the analogy or metaphor isn't really accurate...