[vgr]

It isn't an old guard thing. It is a personality and strengths thing. I am not particularly old guard (I am 37), and while I am about average in the technologies I do know, I suck at learning new platforms/technologies. It's like pulling teeth.

Those who are good at it just don't get how hard it can be for those are not quick learners in this sense. This is part of not knowing their own value -- claiming that learning new languages is "easy." It is. For them.

[lazyBilly]

I dunno, I guess I'm of the mindset that the waves are coming, and you're either on them or under them. These days, I get antsy if I get enough time in one stack that I really feel like I have it cooking. Which is how I've clawed my way up from the embedded programming basement all the way up to javascript now. (Aside: sweet jesus, how do you web guys put up with javascript? It's like java and ml's thalidomide baby.)

[jnbiche]

Why do you think we've turned to Coffeescript in droves?