I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
It may be confirmation bias, but I think that a lot of the things that are hyped aren't new.
I've seen so many blog posts about such-and-such a revolutionary technology only to read it and find out it's a new name for something that was around 30 years ago.
On the flip side, the things that are genuinely novel are often going to sink without trace because they fail to get enough users behind them at an early stage in their development. So I read them with marginal interest and move along, waiting to see whether they're still a thing next year.
I realise I am part of the problem here. I'm also generalising wildly. That said, I can't remember the last "hyped" thing that I thought was particularly interesting. In fact, a lot of the time I think they're terrible ideas that happen to have more visibility than they deserve.
It may be confirmation bias, but I think that a lot of the things that are hyped aren't new.
I've seen so many blog posts about such-and-such a revolutionary technology only to read it and find out it's a new name for something that was around 30 years ago.
On the flip side, the things that are genuinely novel are often going to sink without trace because they fail to get enough users behind them at an early stage in their development. So I read them with marginal interest and move along, waiting to see whether they're still a thing next year.
I realise I am part of the problem here. I'm also generalising wildly. That said, I can't remember the last "hyped" thing that I thought was particularly interesting. In fact, a lot of the time I think they're terrible ideas that happen to have more visibility than they deserve.
That's an interesting take 😉
Thanks for sharing 🙏❤