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Discussion on: How has the software dev job gotten worse in the last few years?

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Aaron Reese

Change is too fast and no standardisation. There used to be a new version of .net every 30 months. Now it is every 30 weeks.
Microsoft are the very worst for this. PowerBI is on a 3 week release cycle as far as I can tell. This means any blog post or training video is out of date almost as soon as it is released. Not only does this make it more difficult to pick up or do as a side process, but it also means Devs spend more and more time polishing or refactoring existing solutions as the functionality they wanted 3 months ago now exists
It's the same is JavaScript land. Just when we had got our heads around graphQL, along comes tRPC and the front end world has a new stack. We have gone from webpack, to parcel and snowpack and now turbopack and create-react-app to Vite and now create-t3-app in under a year (it feels)

Not to mention Svelte, Astro, redwood, bun, deno....

Rant over. I need a lie down.