What about devs who are left behind?

[@gauravtejpal8901]

You're right. Our circumstances play a big part in our lives. I think if we love to learn and create we will succeed no matter what

[@razvanfrandes]

The bad part is that youtube become some kind of propaganda how to build stuff. The illusion is shaped by dev influencers who sells different technologies. The reality is very different. We live in some kind of post truth era, where marketing is the truth and no essence. It’s like plato’s cave. The speed of evolving technologies is real and overwhelming but the adaptations of those technologies are very slow.

[@david3552]

I completely agree. There is a great disconnect between what we see on social media and everyday work.

[@rafatejera329]

felt that plato thing

[@razvanfrandes]

Fredrick has a very good analogy, regarding drivers, same in every industry. For us developers who has this fear of beeing left behind, it’s just a emotion pumped by new crazy things we consume. I applied to jobs that requiered senior/expert full stack developers with a grocery list of technologies to know, and the projects were not what you expect, like bootcamp projects. If you are good in php with jquery, bravo, continue, learn advance topics, build advance functionalities. Dont use a new framework cause it does ssr,isr,ssg, cause some cool guys with his mouth opened in a thumbnail says so, cause we are not influencers we dont have time and we dont get paid to promote this technologie, we get paid to get a job done.

[@yt-sh]

Note to self: Learn good software dev habits beyond development like DevOps Testing etc and just stay updated

[@FredrikChristenson]

If you remember to practice these basics you will be able to handle almost any role at any company. Most devs stop too early and forget that after the code is written you need to know how to test it and how to get it to the user. You don't have to be a master but you do need to know the basics.

[@eightsprites]

Comment on containers. Often the question is about a specific container type. And the one asking the question forgets that the older developer has used a number of different types before. Often it isn’t that the older developer doesn’t understand why a technology is good. Its that they either just dont know _that_ version or they just moved on and dont need that technology to help them anymore. Examples of IDE extendtions, I as an older developer doesn’t need them. Typing speed isn’t the part that gonna make a project a success or not. Same with unit tests, test coversge and automation. Many times its not needed, it depends on number of people working on the project, thier experience and size of the project. Did I just swear in church.. I said something about not needing tests? And that’s my point, at one time I probably did need it badly to make stuff work at all. Currently not so much. But that depends on size of my project, scope and deadlines. Same with containers. Did you know linux has LXC built in? And do you really need to spin up a new instance just to run a DB? Can a embedded/statically linked DB work for what you doing? or LXC? Things like this is what goes through the head of the older developer when the 20 man team demands CI/CD on Kubernetes………….. will a raspberry PI and 2 people be enough for this toy project instead? Then you look stupid, unwilling to learn. I will describe a common thing happening in meetings: A: -Lets do it this way ME: -Wont work cause of X A: ME: Im sure older developers did the same to me when I was younger. It also takes some time to understand that different tech domains has different tech stacks.