[Scarblac]

It's a constant treadmill.

Developers see people switching jobs a lot. They read Hacker News and blogs and read about new frameworks. Companies are afraid all their people leave and they can't find replacements. Developers are afraid their skills will go out of date and they will be left behind when everybody is on Shiny Thing 2020 and they have never used it. Developers jump for jobs that promise them they can work with Shiny Thing 2020. Companies feel forced to rewrite things that are a few years old in it because their remaining developers are clamouring for it and they can't get new people in to work with tech from 2017. Repeat ad infinitum.

I was out of web dev for a while in research, where we wrote code for machines in C. Libraries were ten years old and worked fine. It was boring as anything. I accepted that I'm addicted to the treadmill and went back to the web.

And finally there is the promise of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow: obviously the way we do Web development now is insane, but one day we will figure out how to do it right. And it will be beautiful, clean, extremely quick to develop, every application will be a web app and it will ultimately be boring.

I hope it happens the day I retire.

Also Django and Typescript are genuinely good tech and React is a clear small step towards the pot of gold.