[nenadg]

That's a nice way to describe something, but it doesn't have to be a problem. Some devs around me (partially me too) just doesn't want to tweet or write blogs about tech, yet we could work in bleeding edge tech or writing cobol at the same time.

Some people maybe don't need help, guidance, or something like that, maybe just maybe we like the things as they are now.

Maybe we'll start doing all of social stuff some day.

It's just okay.

[pm90]

While this is perfectly fine for you and for everyone who makes this understandable decision, what tends to happen is that people learning about bleeding edge of technology tend to have very different perception of what bleeding edge tech is. Every new buzzy technology is so oversold that it makes developers overly cynical and disappointed when it doesn't deliver on the promises made.

If you or others such as yourself did blog about success stories, or real-world experiences in General, other engineers would perhaps have a more sober perspective of the bleeding edge and would make more informed decisions when deciding to switch stacks instead of just "hey its cool and the latest fad".

Again, I don't really expect you to change your behavior at all, this is just a description of what happens in aggregate.

[fxtentacle]

I believe that many programmers, especially junior ones, want to try out and work with the newest tech just because it looks great on their CV.

I've been in some projects where more experienced team members very clearly reminded everyone that technology X would not be useful here, but others on the team just resented them for disallowing the cool stuff.

So this could also be a conflict between the company's goals (stable product) and the individuals' goals (cool CV).

[nenadg]

Well, I have that honor to hang on drinking beers, with people who are deploying their parts of larger web application on kubernetes independently on the other team who appears to use svelte, and the other one who uses ABAP, which is basically cobol, and third one who actually supports banking application written in cobol.

There are stories which could certainly help engineers around the globe, but those friends of mine just doesn't feel any emerging feeling to write about it.