Please Just Shut Up About Tech Stacks

[@Infinighost]

Similarly, I'm amazed at how recruiters think about tech stacks these days. They will post a job demanding, say, Angular experience. They'll receive a resume from someone with React and Vue.js and throw the resume in the trash because yOu dOn'T hAvE aNgUlAr eXpErIeNcE. As if it's IMPOSSIBLE to learn a new framework quickly if you have significant experience with similar products. So frustrating.

[@ChrisAthanas]

HR departments don’t know about software development

[@theBIGgee]

This was literally me. I can't remember the year specifically 2019 or 2020. I've never learnt Angular since then, and I will never learn it.

[@platinumsun4632]

Meh resumes weren’t made for truths.

[@perfumegoose]

You won't learn Angular overnight

[@RakibHasan-455]

@@perfumegoose yup

[@kawallabair3216]

"If anyone is talking in absolutes rather than tradeoffs, just ignore them" - An absolute statement. Now what do I do?

[@Suto_Ko]

just take it with a grain of salt and consider it as a reminder to approach things with a balanced perspective.

[@thommccarthy1139]

Yep. Just jumped from Node JS at my previous job to now working with Visual Basic. The tools are just that, tools.

[@nadg866]

how is VB in 2023? I'm not touching it since high school in 2008

[@xienthing6190]

😂😂 VB

[@gidd]

This is what puts me off the dev community the most lol

[@Drelka]

puts me off people in general, everything must be right or wrong

[@Summersault666]

Plot twist, you still have dynamic types in typescript.

[@tankmohit]

Very insightful video. Thanks for making.

[@br3nto]

It’s nice to hear someone verbalise this.

[@TomNook.]

I follow some solopreneurs on Twitter. The very successful ones never mention tech stack wars. They still use jQuery. End customers don't give a damn about tech stacks.

[@chrisstucker1813]

Because successful entrepreneurs get shit done instead of sitting around on twitter arguing about stuff they don’t understand while sipping coffee.

[@lahcencodery]

Context is king in almost any situation, but also these debates are what help progressing things and some folks get dragged in the wrong discussions along the way( see endless debates between framework authors themselves, Evan Yo, Rich Harris... etc. Those are not amators)

[@abstractthinker]

The whole stack vs stack thing is getting old. You say you don't like stack A over stack B but the engineers using stack A aren't complaining and they are damn good at what they do.

[@thebahrimedia]

waiting for british accent Aaron Jack to start taking over

[@anon-fz2bo]

i rly dont care what language i have to use on the job anymore, my entire goal with programming is to just be good at it & what better way to be good at it than by writing code in multiple languages? the fundamentals essentially stay the same safe for some more esoteric languages such as haskell. even so, there are no jobs in it.

[@Suto_Ko]

yeah, being proficient in multiple programming languages can definitely broaden your skillset and make you a versatile developer. While the fundamentals remain consistent across languages, there are unique aspects to each one. As for Haskell, although it may not have as many job opportunities compared to more mainstream languages, there are still positions available. It can be a valuable skill to have, especially in certain domains like functional programming and academia. Keep exploring and honing your skills.

[@anon-fz2bo]

@@Suto_Ko i prefer ocaml or f# when im feeling functional although im more of an oop & procedural guy tbh.

[@merridius2006]

I am bored out of my mind. You can’t compare JavaScript and Typescript as Typescript is a superset of JavaScript, obviously. It’s whether to use it or not.

[@viralforeverr]

brillant

[@dhaufjebzjchseis3828]

never leave us again 😢

[@pcnerd5994]

What is the best Programming language? The one that paid me the most.

[@hmd2372]

It s not language it s up to feild to another

[@ITSKRIMO]

i just tweeted about this. saying that not all problems are to be solved. sometimes by solving a problem, we take more time that could be better spent doing other things that will bring more value. and yes some technologies solve some problems but does using them will benefit the product more than not? can we focus on other problems to solve that will bring more value to the company or product?

[@RandomNoob1124]

Ugh..those guys are so annoying and POPULATED in discord community servers…it’s clear they have never read a book on understanding programming languages.

[@crystalcortexx]

Only a sith deals in absolutes

[@ukaszzbrozek6470]

Pure wisdom 👏

[@jasonreviews]

Everything is BROKEN you mean trade off?

[@eli_chaps]

Wait where they serious debating about it? I thought it was a joke 🤣

[@ItsNothingAmazing]

TypeScript is better than JavaScript

[@justinoconnell7307]

I've missed the videos

[@doublesushi5990]

he's back

[@dacam29]

He's gone 😢

[@anasouardini]

Although very informative, this video ignores some options. It doesn't have to be either 90+% type-safe TS or bare JS: e.g. a simple script for converting .js to .ts, is worth every second, objectively; no trade offs.

[@nathanfranck5822]

Zig is the best language though. The tradeoff is working with people / tech that haven't caught up to it's brilliance yet. In the meantime I will build my perfect software in blissful isolation while the populance flounder in their misery

[@nathanfranck5822]

Typescript types can be inserted incrementally into codebases, especially when your about to do a refactor, it might save you time to guard the things your about to touch in types so that you know after the refactor that nothing broke without exploring all the code paths

[@nathanfranck5822]

Nice video! Too aggressively centrist IMO but yeah, the thumbnails for all the tech videos sure give the impression we are missing out on the next greatest thing. I believe that there is old languages and frameworks that are just crufty and we do benefit as a community by reinventing wheels and trying new things. The best way to combat the soy dev 100-tech-sticker-laptop people is by showing cool new software and solutions. I respect AngeTheGreat and Engine Sim showing awesome physics sims, game dev youtubers putting out dev logs, Tsoding releasing hilareously and ironically niche code streams, etc etc. There are a tonne of fun and diverse voices in the dev space that aren't just listing tech and frameworks. I love it here ❤