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Younger devs conflate tech choices with innovation. They’ll believe that a computer vision company is a dinosaur because they’re using C++ and a glorified CRUD

Younger devs conflate tech choices with innovation. They’ll believe that a computer vision company is a dinosaur because they’re using C++ and a glorified CRUD startup is hip and relevant because it uses Rust. It doesn’t help that the anemic-ness of some domains doesn’t set in until 1-2 years later.

kritr 3y ago
Using newer technologies sometimes buys development velocity, which is a good indication of innovation.
- LtWorf 3y ago
  Or it makes development slower due to lack of documentation, support, and libraries for the chosen technology.
  - threeseed 3y ago
    There are plenty of boring languages that have poor documentation, support and libraries. Often it's all just out of date.
BlackFly 3y ago
I agree that novel technical choices are often conflated with innovation over eagerly. My experience is that in learning the lesson that these things are different many people over correct and assume that novel technical choices are only ever resume padding or useless hype. There are no silver bullets and the only way to get an order of magnitude improvement is iterated marginal improvements. That something is at best a marginal improvement shouldn't be taken for a lack of innovation.