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Been doing back end for 13 years, and I try to visit a programming conference or two a year. I think on average back end churns slower. Every year I'll hit a conference, and hear about the latest and greatest, but only a fraction of that stuff sticks around, and gets integrated. I believe most company's won't swap language/framework/libraries until absolutely necessary. So the adoption of new things you might see at a company is much slower than someone who job hops every 3 years. The company I am at now, had a C++, cout << "<html>..." version of the site for 6+ years. The version that replaced that is a younger language with a MVC, but it's already been 9+ years since that was implemented, and it'll probably be a few more years until anything else supplants that. Another thing that I think affects front end is the browsers. I don't know the stats, but I believe that Chrome/FF/Edge release more features, experimental features, and bug fixes per year, than your average language, or OS. This cascade of releases in turn effect front end code, and libraries. It's a wave pool, not a ripple in the pond. |