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by papito 1095 days ago
I resisted learning a lot of it knowing that there will be a snap-back to simpler designs long-term, and it's happening now.

And when I tried, it went nowhere. After months of work on my side project with Electron, Typescript, and Vue, I was in the same place because every time I opened IntelliJ, it seemed all of my effort went into just having it build again.

Now I chose ArrowJS for my project, and it's been a delight. Look, I get it, but I would refrain from accusing the other person of laziness in this case.

Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits: https://kenkantzer.com/learnings-from-5-years-of-tech-startu...

The very first two points prove that it's not just me.

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I don't think there is laziness in falling behind the technology curve - the things that worked ten years ago still work today and if you're shipping code then what you're doing is working. But new technologies aren't overly complex and they generally make a developer's life easier, not harder, but they all come with a learning curve. And the landscape evolves quickly, so in order to leverage them you have to stay on top of it.