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Well said. Where I work, the only people who talk about languages and compare languages are the people who are language nerds, who know many languages and are l

• lesuorac 3y ago
  > They may not even know the latest syntaxes/features in the language they use every day. Always annoying when you get an interview question of the different between an Interface and Abstract Class from somebody looking for a Java 7 answer ... > Most people just chug along with whatever their job requires and provides -- the default IDEs and other tools with default settings. Well, nothing wrong with doing a good job with the tools you have but if you don't ever evaluate new tools ever then you're almost certainly going to be doing things less efficient than you otherwise could. I'm not able to find the article but IRC it's a Joel Spokeys article on every project has 3 innovation tokens and I think sometimes that should be a goal of no more but also sometimes no less. His idea was it being a maximum amount of new risk you take on; but sometimes I think it should also be considered a goal. If you're familiar with MySQL it takes 0 tokens to use but if you decide to use (new to you) Postres then it costs a token. Sure if the whole project is a short time frame it probably makes sense to only loop in 1 new technology but if its a multi-year project I think it's worth it to burn a week evaluating 3 new things on the off-chance one of them saves a week+.