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by bluewalt 2950 days ago
The major problem is that when you learn something in this current crazy JS/Front world, your knowledge is deprecated 6 months later. I know a developer should always stay up to date with technology by constantly learning, but if I compare what I learned 5 years ago in Python, I would say 95% is still relevant today. But if I look at the JS "state-of-the-art" stack today, compared to the 2 years old, it's completely different. It's very frustrating to invest time and effort to learn something and then hear recruiters tell you things like: "Hmmm no one uses that anymore".
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williamxd3 2950 days ago
Maybe because there is no need to evolve there?

I mean, you can see clearly why we came from jQuery, to AngularJs, then Angular/React/Vue, there was a need.

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bluewalt 2949 days ago
This constant need to evolve is the exact definition of immaturity, for HTML/CSS/JS front-end.

I'm not a mobile dev, but I'm pretty sure when you make the front-end in an iOS app, you don't need to learn 3 languages + 2 frameworks + tooling to transpile + type checker + webpack...

Web front-end is completely broken because the foundation (HTML/JS/CSS) is not the right tool for the need.

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williamxd3 2949 days ago
Now that is a real problem, and it will not be fixed soon.

It is easy to a single company define how they want their platform to be, like iOS, but browsers are a different beast, as every change need to be agreed between several major companies.

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