[sunscream89]

No.

Read real books. Talk to real people. Do real things.

You can catch up when everyone else actually gets somewhere, and have spent the whole meanwhile on self exploration.

[malfist]

It's the same as web dev. Will you get left behind if you don't keep up with every new js framework that's the flavor of the week? No, learn one when you need to, for fun or for profit, or once the industry has coalesced around something