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> But I do not expect TypeScript to be the primary language I use for the rest of my career! That's like saying, "I do not expect English to be the primary lan
by jart 2y ago
> But I do not expect TypeScript to be the primary language I use for the rest of my career!
That's like saying, "I do not expect English to be the primary language I use for the rest of my life." Think about what it would be like if you had to work in China and speak Chinese because all the jobs went away in America. Is that good for you? Probably not. That's what the industry does to software engineers every few years with all these languages. It keeps the engineer down by preying on his curiosity with distractions that put him at a disadvantage.
- cwalv 2y ago> It keeps the engineer down by preying on his curiosity with distractions that put him at a disadvantage. How does the effort to satisfy curiosity keep the engineer down?
- shortrounddev2 2y agoIt is incredibly hard to learn Chinese if you only know English, but when you know one programming language, picking up most of another one is trivial. As you get later in your career, your skills as an engineer aren't defined by your knowledge of a particular language's syntax, but more generalized skills related to project architecture and scope management. Language becomes an implementation detail