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As a young blood, 5 years in, got hired by learning react in the great JS hiring of the mid 2010s, I look back towards those standards bodies as something that
by scsilver 6y ago
As a young blood, 5 years in, got hired by learning react in the great JS hiring of the mid 2010s, I look back towards those standards bodies as something that would be very beneficial now. All we have is chrome creating standards by monopoly.
Maybe I have a older mindset aswell. My training in in Civil Engineering and I have my expectations for standards bodies set pretty high because of it.
The code is so high level now, going through algo and data structures I see the benefit of that fundamental knowledge, but also see that you can be a very valuable engineer to a company without it(thanks to the rich developer ecosystem for that)
If we think about the maturity of software like a biological ecosystem, maybe the zen garden built by past engineers has overgrown into a dense and varietal forrest. Im not sure if its bad or good, maybe there are more niches to move into.