[aaronbrethorst]

Nope, just different. I'm a big proponent of the notion of 'innovation tokens,' which has come up elsewhere in this discussion[1].

If the project that I was referring to had been a 'just for me, just for learning' side project, I would have chosen one new-to-me technology. It might have been some JavaScript SPA framework. It might have been Kubernetes. Or maybe GraphQL. It might have been something completely different.

But, this project was absolutely critical for its users, and it had to be delivered on an incredibly tight timeline. I didn't have the luxury of playing around with anything new. And this is still the case. In fact, the project has grown in importance for its users and I have even less flexibility to play around with new-to-me technologies right now.

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[1] Here's an example of me discussing this six years ago, although I was unfamiliar with the term at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9291437 ... Re-reading this comment, I'm actually kind of surprised how little I disagree with here. The only thing that has actually changed for me is that I use Swift instead of Objective-C for my iOS apps.