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I shifted my focus from technology to people. If I'm starting a new project, I'll look at what the people who'll work on the project know. If there's a common d
by npteljes 3y ago
I shifted my focus from technology to people. If I'm starting a new project, I'll look at what the people who'll work on the project know. If there's a common denominator or best practice, like how React is nowadays for frontends, I'll just go with that. I don't really sweat these technical decisions, because the team composition, or the job seekers' market, or StackOverflow's technology top list answers there questions with ease.
- josephg 3y agoI get that and I think it’s pragmatic. But if everyone thinks like you’re suggesting, we’ll all be using react forever, even if there are better answers out there for how to build our software. If you want to use whatever is popular, that means you depend on others to find good technology solutions and make them popular in order to improve your tech stack. Put another way, this strategy puts you firmly in the “mid to late adopter” part of the adoption curve. Articles like this (and indeed much of this discussion) is largely targeting people who are earlier adopters.
- npteljes 3y agoI think you hit the nail on the head on the adoption curve point. I indeed am a later adopter, and lately consciously so.