I'm OK being left behind, thanks! (shkspr.mobi)
from e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de to programming@programming.dev on 20 Mar 13:04
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ChromaticMan@lemmy.world on 20 Mar 13:08 next collapse

If this tech is as amazing as you say it is, I’ll be able to pick it up and become productive on a timescale of my choosing not yours.

While I agree, my boss sadly thinks otherwise.

Skullgrid@lemmy.world on 20 Mar 13:28 next collapse

For every HTML 2.0 you might have tried, you were just as likely to have got stuck in the dead-end of Flash.

This one hurt. I had a decade plus old piece of tech debt from when they fucking killed flash before I could move on to new projects.

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world on 20 Mar 14:38 next collapse

Flash had its use. I think a better analogy for me is web frameworks.

I remember in the mid 2000s there seems to be a new one every week. “LOL, you aren’t using Ruby On Rails? Peasant!” “LOL, you aren’t using Django? Peasant!”

Still seems to be the case with Electron, React, Node, blah blah blah.

Running to stand still.

[deleted] on 20 Mar 14:48 next collapse
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Feathercrown@lemmy.world on 20 Mar 14:48 next collapse

I feel like the web framework question has stabilized in recent years. React and node (not a web framework but in a similar boat) are stable and common, and angular and a few others are good alternatives.

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world on 20 Mar 14:58 collapse

I hear they’re changing the language these things run on from JavaScript to TypeScript.

No thanks to the hamster wheel.

kboy101222@sh.itjust.works on 20 Mar 16:58 collapse

I mean, Typescript just compiles down to JavaScript. I’m also generally anti a million frameworks, but JavaScript to TypeScript is easy

Traister101@lemmy.today on 20 Mar 19:08 collapse

Isn’t it also like opt in? If you don’t annotate a type it just defaults to Any, which is just unchecked like standard JS

Skullgrid@lemmy.world on 20 Mar 14:59 collapse

“LOL, you aren’t using Django? Peasant!”

… I’m working on learning Django to get a job… should I stop? What should I use instead?

My webserver I’ve had for a while supports basically that.

FishFace@piefed.social on 20 Mar 15:03 collapse

Django isn’t going anywhere. The point is not to jump on the latest fad, which Django isn’t.

Redkey@programming.dev on 20 Mar 15:01 collapse

I sympathize with the point of the article, but if someone’s seriously citing Flash, which had widespread success for a run of about 15 years before being overtaken by later developments (driven in part by a billionaire with an axe to grind), as a short-lived “dead end” that was best avoided, then how long do they think is a sensible amount of time to wait to see if something’s worth spending time and effort? Nothing remains on top forever.

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world on 20 Mar 14:34 collapse

Articulates the conclusion I’ve come to.

The idea that fetuses today will never catch up to a technology touted as easy enough for a dog to use is absurd.

If this stuff is so amazing, then I’ll pick it up when it matures.

It frankly doesn’t solve any problems I have. PR approvals are my bottleneck, not writing code.

And as more people outsource their thinking to LLMs, the less intelligent they are on their own.

Hope you have enough tokens and the server isn’t 404.