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You don't need the first 10 trendy technologies you can think of
by pluc 5y ago
You don't need the first 10 trendy technologies you can think of
- blowski 5y agoWhat counts as a trendy technology? I’m sure tcp/ip was once trendy, as was HTML, RDBMS, etc.
- Guest42 5y agoThose other examples fall under the intersection of trendy, useful across a spectrum of scenarios, widely adopted, and in hindsight changed the face of technology itself. The comparison is apples to oranges....or a handful of peanut shells to the total population of orange trees to be more accurate.
- chitowneats 5y agoThese are the exceptions that prove the rule.
- thfuran 5y agoThat's not how exceptions or rules work.
- chitowneats 5y agoI was being cute with a turn of phrase. A large majority of trendy new technologies in the software industry are driven by ephemeral industry buzz. It takes time for us to collectively separate the wheat from the chaff. In the meantime it's generally wise to stick with what has worked in the past.
- actually_a_dog 5y agoYou're misunderstanding how the word "prove" works. In this expression, it's being used in an archaic sense meaning "to test."
- this_user 5y agoI don't think these technologies ever had entire industries based solely on marketing and Ponzi schemes built around them.
- adamcharnock 5y agoOh I remember the days when I was steadfastly staying on an IPX network and only temporarily changing over the TCP/IP to play specific games (Quake 1?). I didn't need this new-fangled TCP nonsense. IPX worked just fine on my 10-baseT coax network :-)
- technothrasher 5y agoNew-fangled??? TCP/IP predates IPX/SPX by about nine years.
- kitsunesoba 5y agoI’m sure everybody has their own definition, but my definition of “not trendy” is some mix of “has been in use long enough that nobody tries to sell it as a cure all wonder technology” and “has only a minimal to moderate presence in the blogosphere”.
- mrits 5y agordbms? I'm not ready to jump on that hype train just yet
- srveale 5y agoMy friend's boss won't let them use git because he doesn't want to switch to a "trendy" technology. Yes, git is still "trendy" in 2022 according to this person. I had never heard of the vc they currently use but my friend was not too keen on it to say the least. Ironic how sometimes people embedded in tech can be the biggest luddites.
- metacritic12 5y agoCorollary: any great technology, the first 10 years they came out, were totally unnecessary. Internet in the 70s? Totally unnecessary for practical uses in the 70s and 80s. Cars invented in the 1880s? Also unnecessary.
- the_snooze 5y ago>Internet in the 70s? Totally unnecessary for practical uses in the 70s and 80s. ARPANET was necessary for rapidly exchanging data and compute resources among research labs, which precisely was what it was designed to do. It just happened to find way more uses beyond its initial goals, and evolved into the internet we know today.
- stolenmerch 5y agoI still have coworkers who think node.js is "hipster" and won't use it. Obviously, trendy is subjective.