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Really? I don't think he has been constantly chasing the hot thingy in the past 10 years, stuff like Ruby/Rails, Coffeescript, Clojure, Kotlin, Node, Typescrip
by kev6168 12y ago
Really? I don't think he has been constantly chasing the hot thingy in the past 10 years, stuff like Ruby/Rails, Coffeescript, Clojure, Kotlin, Node, Typescript, F#, Go, Rust, Nim, Elixir, Meteor ...
- TylerE 12y agoHe was C++, then Java, then he was C++ again then he was Python... Then he wrote about Flex, and now Scala...
- kev6168 12y agoI remember reading his blog [0] on Scala 4 years ago, it might be the flavor of the month at that time. [0] http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=328540 http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=328540
- Confusion 12y agoGod forbid someone sees benefit in a variety of technologies and writes about each of them, sometimes revisiting earlier opinions.
- weego 12y agoBecause the people we really want to hear from are career-long zealots that never cross-learn?
- zak_mc_kracken 12y agoHis livelihood is about presenting at conferences and writing books. It's basically his job to dig up new technologies and fake excitement about them. Without that, he's out of a job.