[mattmurdog]

When you claim to be a senior engineer with 20 years of experience and you don't know what ES6 is then you don't deserve a job.

[halfknot]

Says someone that insinuates javascript is applicable to all forms of software engineering...

This is what's really wrong with software engineering: we have young, cocky and mostly ignorant people doing the hiring. From CEO's riding daddy's coat-tails while trying to pretend to run a company, all the way to college grads that think their training as a flaming-hoop jumper is the pinnacle of engineering.

You do this to yourselves.

[mattmurdog]

To say that it is not is also makes that person not hireable.

[stochastic_monk]

The world isn't web development.

Some of us do other things, you know.

[mattmurdog]

I can only speak about building web apps with Google. Replace ES6 with anything else.

[stochastic_monk]

What you're trying to say, then, is that you need to stay up to speed with your discipline. That's fair.

I think that the main solution to all of this is that you need to have skills with a long shelf life in addition to being up to speed on what's hot right now.

Bringing up a new release of a language as being essential for any programmer is missing the point here.