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Discussion on: What do you do to be up-to-date on new Frameworks and Technologies?

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Adán Carrasco

First of all, thanks a lot for your reply Kasey.

I'm not thinking of switching jobs because of the new Frameworks learning :). The project I'm working in my current job is great, it has taught me a lot (it's OOP project BTW haha). I'm more interested in switching jobs because of two main reasons:

Number one, an opportunity to lead and learn from the people who have been working on different frameworks, I have been working for more than 3 years with the same team in the same project, and sometimes is good to hear different opinions and different ways of thinking to improve. Unfortunately looking for another project inside the company is not an option due to all the company's projects (99% for FE) are under that internal Framework. Doing a demo using a different Framework to stakeholders is not an option, the project might have +6 years of development with 60+ people involved, it's huge and highly coupled :( not an option to introduce a section with a new Framework.

Number two, I'm interested on living in another country and learn from other culture, not an option to ask for a transfer in my current job.

I agree with you on learning new frameworks: "learn different opinion, better than others in some things, etc." I have been following FE Frameworks since 5 years now, and yikes there are lots of them.

A couple of weeks ago I first watched a conference about Elm and turns out that it's very interesting, and as you mentioned looks really easy to refactor. I'm going to give it a try and give it 1 hour a week to get familiar with it. :)

Another thing that I'm going to try is to have more participation on Open Source Projects. Hopefully this is considered as work experience and I will be a step forward to get there.

Thanks!