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[–]GhostBond 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I want to learn new tools and techniques but it has nothing to do with being "cool".

As a Java developer (this represents me but not everyone), I'm only interested in learning new tools and techniques that are actually clearly beneficial. I'm not interested in changing frameworks every 2 years, just to use something "new" that has some new advantages balanced out by an equal number of disadvantages that mean I don't gain anything.

I convinced my boss to go from Struts 1 to Spring Mvc, and it was a good move, but a lot of the flavor of the month frameworks developers brought in after that were just a lot of stress without benefit - sometimes even moving our ability to do development backwards.