I remember when Rails was the hot new thing, I stuck with Java. Same with Groovy. Same with a bunch of things. When you feel like the world is passing you by, take a breath and look for language or platform usage statistics on Github or StackExchange.
As it turned out, there's still a lot of work in Java and it's kept me fed for over twenty years now. I built a killer app in Scala after discovering Akka, then did some more work in Java. Learned Kubernetes and it required Go, but Java paid more bills. It's a bit long in the tooth, but then they introduce something like WebFlux and you realize it's not dead, not by a longshot. Spring is a foundation that a lot of companies depend on every day and something like WebFlux allows developers to do a better job and have more fun.
Substitute your own languages here, but stay true to your roots. Great to hear you found this.
Whenever I hear of a new technology I will search "Criticisms of X" and "X vs" (intentionally blank to see what it competes with) and pay very close attention to the flaws of the technology.
This process eliminates many new technologies, and makes you an early adopter for the few that are left. For e.g. I skipped Scala and Groovy and fully embraced Kotlin. Not to say Groovy and Scala is not worth learning, but for my use cases were not (and to be 100% honest with you, Kotlin is a superior general purpose language and also superior in most niches).
I want to share some thoughts on it not being so bad to follow the tech trends though
There's certainly a lot of value to the hype languages. The longer established projects and languages are repeatedly taking the best parts from hype languages. Go has some painful flaws and limitations, but I think it popularised some concurrency ideas that have made their way into Kotlin. And when you "fall" for the hype and learn all of these new concepts, and eventually learn with the rest of the community about the flaws, you'll have a big head start at whatever more practical approach you move on to.
I've had to use some older frameworks for a while, and after long enough my approach to solving problems tends to stop changing. Then I'll be forced to use a trendy framework or language, and later come back to the older tech and I'll have new ideas just from being forced into a different perspective. I think this is a nice thing about the trendy techs
Btw, I recommend checking out "Quarkus vs" and "Kotlin vs" if you haven't already 😄
The ask in my post was to "substitute your own languages", which is to say the language wars have no end and there's no interest in engaging in them. I was just trying to illustrate that one's own path is the best path, really don't care for anyone else's opinion on language choices. I also do the " vs." trick, it's great. Thanks for sharing that!
I reckon language discussions can be more productive than they seem when people are just shy to concede at first and secretly come around later 😜 but yeah I should try not to bait anyone
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I remember when Rails was the hot new thing, I stuck with Java. Same with Groovy. Same with a bunch of things. When you feel like the world is passing you by, take a breath and look for language or platform usage statistics on Github or StackExchange.
As it turned out, there's still a lot of work in Java and it's kept me fed for over twenty years now. I built a killer app in Scala after discovering Akka, then did some more work in Java. Learned Kubernetes and it required Go, but Java paid more bills. It's a bit long in the tooth, but then they introduce something like WebFlux and you realize it's not dead, not by a longshot. Spring is a foundation that a lot of companies depend on every day and something like WebFlux allows developers to do a better job and have more fun.
Substitute your own languages here, but stay true to your roots. Great to hear you found this.
Whenever I hear of a new technology I will search "Criticisms of X" and "X vs" (intentionally blank to see what it competes with) and pay very close attention to the flaws of the technology.
This process eliminates many new technologies, and makes you an early adopter for the few that are left. For e.g. I skipped Scala and Groovy and fully embraced Kotlin. Not to say Groovy and Scala is not worth learning, but for my use cases were not (and to be 100% honest with you, Kotlin is a superior general purpose language and also superior in most niches).
I want to share some thoughts on it not being so bad to follow the tech trends though
There's certainly a lot of value to the hype languages. The longer established projects and languages are repeatedly taking the best parts from hype languages. Go has some painful flaws and limitations, but I think it popularised some concurrency ideas that have made their way into Kotlin. And when you "fall" for the hype and learn all of these new concepts, and eventually learn with the rest of the community about the flaws, you'll have a big head start at whatever more practical approach you move on to.
I've had to use some older frameworks for a while, and after long enough my approach to solving problems tends to stop changing. Then I'll be forced to use a trendy framework or language, and later come back to the older tech and I'll have new ideas just from being forced into a different perspective. I think this is a nice thing about the trendy techs
Btw, I recommend checking out "Quarkus vs" and "Kotlin vs" if you haven't already 😄
The ask in my post was to "substitute your own languages", which is to say the language wars have no end and there's no interest in engaging in them. I was just trying to illustrate that one's own path is the best path, really don't care for anyone else's opinion on language choices. I also do the " vs." trick, it's great. Thanks for sharing that!
I reckon language discussions can be more productive than they seem when people are just shy to concede at first and secretly come around later 😜 but yeah I should try not to bait anyone