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by gdsdfe 2320 days ago
Do you work in software? It's making new things with new things that software makers better at what they do.
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Sounds nice. And idealistic. The reality is at this point the newer is often not much better, or may be just a step sideways rather than forward, and therefore does not replace anything, but rather siphons off a portion of the investment in the pool of alternatives around it. The benefits tend to not justify the costs associated with skill fragmentation and time and effort needed to learn them. More concretely, im not talking about jumping from C to Java. Im talking about things like the thousand different web languages that dont need to exist at all.