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Hello, just want to chime in and say that you shouldn't have to feel anxious about falling behind potentially if something new comes along. Life is too short to worry about things that can't ultimately care about you (weird thing to say I know, but the interests that you care about, even if they are non-human, you fall in love with because they give you something back; and excluding the emotions of: the fear of missing out, the pressure to fit in, or the greed to get ahead). I'll go out on a limb and say that most of the new Javascript web development frameworks are created by really zealous young people fresh out of school, eager to explore the brave new world of open-source and using Github as a medium to mark their mark (hence the reason for why there are so many new solo frameworks or fork, not enough collaboration); or by old-timers in that community who for whatever personal reasons really enjoy doing it and been doing it. Go to your local open-mic for poetry or music jam for a "In Real Life" representation of this phenomenon. Speaking for myself, I am just not interested in learning arbitrary new frameworks that isn't intellectually interesting, that is simple syntactical sugar (remapping the textual receipe of rendering of a button from desktop development, to Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 to React.js) or doesn't open up a new outlet to other subjects that I want to learn about (e.g., machine learning, Bioinformatics). Practically speaking, if it turns out in 5 years, all software companies mandates the banning of lamer frameworks such as PHP or .net and only Node.js/React.js/Flux allowed. I'll wait for the idiot crash guide for these frameworks and these frameworks to be watered for "plebes" like the rest of us and try to learn the keyboard remapping in a couple of weeks; I'll let the hipster kids on Github who "did it first" take the street cred; and hopefully then, I can still manage. |