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No, the madness will never end. Once you've been programming in the industry for awhile, and have seen a few fads come and go, you start to get fed up with the
by phendrenad2 5y ago
No, the madness will never end. Once you've been programming in the industry for awhile, and have seen a few fads come and go, you start to get fed up with the churn and just want to do things in the simplest way. Electron? Bah, I'll just make native apps for Windows and Mac in C++ and Swift! React? Bah, I'll just write a simple pure-JS app as a .js file.
Because you know that in 10 years you'll have to un-learn all of your Electron and React skills and re-learn something new. Equivalent, pointlessly new, but new nonetheless.
The problem is, nobody is going to let you do that. Chasing the new shiny thing is, for better or worse, part of the software industry. You will always have to learn something new that does the exact same thing the thing you already knew how to use did 10 years ago. The best you can do is find some company that's stuck on some previously-cool technology, but even then they'll want you to rewrite it in the new thing.