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Articles like this are good to show how fads and buzzwords in tech take on a life of their own. Hopefully there are some younger devs in this thread who can lea
by russellbeattie 4y ago
Articles like this are good to show how fads and buzzwords in tech take on a life of their own. Hopefully there are some younger devs in this thread who can learn from it.
Us older guys have to do the opposite. As we see these things come and go, we get jaded and start to dismiss new techniques as fads. I shudder to think of how much wasted effort I put into "Enterprise JavaBeans" and "XSL Transforms". Years later, I took a look at React when it first launched, dismissed it as crap because of the mess it made in the DOM back then, and then ignored it. It took me a few years until I realized I was wrong and it was going to stick around.
- icedchai 4y agoYou were right and wrong. Just because something is crap doesn't mean it won't stick around...
- antod 4y agoI was thinking about this the other day. One element that makes a successful senior is distinguishing fads from trends early enough, rather than just good from bad. Trends and fads can look pretty similar in the early days, and trends often look bad early on too as they often take longer to mature than a fad. The trick is in spotting things that appear to be a bad fad, but will eventually be a good trend.