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Can you name another profession that throws out its tools so often?
by titzer 5y ago
Can you name another profession that throws out its tools so often?
- chickenpotpie 5y agoThat’s not an answer to their question
- titzer 5y agoTheir reply was a non sequitur because they didn't understand the analogy. But anyway most "fixes" are really just changing systems to adapt to change in other systems. I spent 3+ years at Google just migrating this and that and the other subsystem to a different datastore, and knew dozens if not hundreds of developers stuck on a treadmill of constantly rewriting to adapt to other people's rewrites.
- dahfizz 5y agoThen... Don't keep throwing out your tools?
- titzer 5y agoThen... Don't plan on lasting more than 10 years in the software industry?
- dahfizz 5y agoThis is exclusively a problem with web development. I work in fintech, writing C and using the gnu toolchain. We are a very successful business.
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- Nydhal 5y agoMobile, Full Stack and Data Engineering also have similar issues. Not as bad as anything related to javascript though.
- kube-system 5y agoEven still, a search for "jQuery" on a jobs board typically still returns plenty of results.
- endisneigh 5y agoThough I believe you're correct, this is not a problem inherent to web development. There's absolutely nothing stopping you from pinning things to specific versions other than the fact that projects couple security updates with breaking feature additions.