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A full stack engineer who knows all the latest BS releases of everything is rare. Especially in a company with a stack from a few years back. It's also unneed
by jokethrowaway 4y ago
A full stack engineer who knows all the latest BS releases of everything is rare.
Especially in a company with a stack from a few years back.
It's also unneeded.
Frontend and backend development are not deep enough that you can't learn the important concepts and practice both. I know plenty of people who do just that and are good at adapting to whatever new framework or library we're using today.
If you need to work overtime in the night, it's not because of cognitive load, it's because your job or your mental health sucks.
- zmxz 4y ago> I know plenty of people who do just that and are good at adapting to whatever new framework or library we're using today. And that's the secret sauce, the core of the full stack dev - or what I would consider - your basic programmer. Basic meaning someone who understands that the real deal is figuring out the problem and that languages and frameworks are tools, not basic as someone unintelligent or incapable. The quality to adapt to a tool means that one knows what the problem is and that's the quality of someone who's adept at solving problems. Such people are scarce, that's the sad truth. Many other devs go down the hard route - memorize everything, throw the buzz at the project, hope for the best, quit when sh*t hits the fan, lie to yourself that CV filled with many jobs in short time span means you're good and desirable.