| Perspective: You're observing a few major factors in play. 1. The majority of programmers/IT/Tech-workers are young (<=3 years of work experience). They don't have enough experience to know what's good (or even what matters) for their craft. (i.e. no one should care about programming language because often you don't get to pick it. Your employer does.) 2. The majority of programmers aren't in North America. They're in Europe and Asia. So there is a linguistic barrier. And this linguistic barrier will get hit because the majority of programming work is done in English. So many of these young non-north-american programmers are trying to polish off their English in these online forums. (So expect people to talk past each other or losing things in translation or flat out misreading subtext) 3. The majority of employers of young/non-senior programmers are not product companies. They're services, start-up, IT or financial companies. Services and start-up companies are sales focuses. So a programmers career path will always ultimately lead to sales to some extent. IT and Financial companies have a larger focus on infrastructure or data reporting. (i.e. majority of careers force programmers to become something else, like leaders. So there is a very real brain drain away from the craft) --- for OP: The simple solution to what you're observing is to stop reading online forums. Instead watch youtube conference videos, read books, and listen to podcasts. When programmers don't have anonymity, the quality and relevance of the content/discussion go up dramatically. --- Irrelevant comment: I think the reason for all this is because anonymity allows insecure/young programmers to test waters before asserting their ideas in the workplace. This is most likely what all the young programmers being pushed towards different careers are doing.
They're looking for a magical piece of information that will force a business to align to their own career aspirations rather than changing their own goals to better align with their employer's objectives (i.e. a very uncomfortable sales-oriented self-transformation). |