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As a fish user myself, I’ll admit there is something to be said for standardization. It’s easy to poke fun at somebody for being afraid to learn something new -
by _vdpp 4y ago
As a fish user myself, I’ll admit there is something to be said for standardization. It’s easy to poke fun at somebody for being afraid to learn something new - but with the explosion of different tools it’s becoming impossible to stay abreast of all the changes and feel proficient in anything anymore.
- BirAdam 4y agoStandardization builds industries and economies of scale. Having competing standards is great for technologists, but makes the current problem particularly painful: in job descriptions, employers now specify not just general technologies used but also particular frameworks, ci/cd tools, and on and on. So many tools that a person must be competent with using, that only a handful of people might know all of them on day one, which makes hiring much more expensive. You either pay over market rate for the perfect person, or hire someone decent and pay for them to learn the job. Ultimately, I think we’re in a better place than we were without modern tooling, but it makes it hard to hire…