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I've been doing this 20 years, and so far (apparently) I haven't lost the ability to learn. Many of my clients are in their 60's and are way brighter than me. T

I've been doing this 20 years, and so far (apparently) I haven't lost the ability to learn. Many of my clients are in their 60's and are way brighter than me. They seem to learn just fine. I'm not worried that missing some framework, or flavor-of-the-month will inhibit my ability to adapt when needed. It's not like you turn 40 and magically give up learning anything new. Indeed the experience along the way allows you to see that very little is genuinely new.

bmj 15y ago
I'm not suggesting you need to learn the flavor-of-the-month, merely that you don't become so comfortable in your current toolset that you perhaps can't quickly learn something new. For me, it's a matter of assessing whether, in certain instances, language/framework A offers some benefits for the given problem over language/framework B. Too many developers just say "well, I've got this here hammer, and that screw kinda looks like a nail."