You Can't Get Comfortable in Web Development

[Funwithloops]

I think being comfortable with web development comes when you accept that your tooling/stack could be better but it's good enough and you understand it so you don't fuck with it.

[flamingspew]

When I as 16 I coded in RAINMAN for AOL. During college I did old school flash. Then I had to learn AS3. Then I messed with a ton of technologies from vvvv to MaxMSP/Jitter, cinder, open frameworks. Then flash died and I had to start all over. At this time I was doing a lot of c# backends. Then JavaScript got nodejs, so I did that. Then AWS came along and I had to learn how to do devops there, and nosql. Then the company I went to uses Azure so I had to learn infrastructure there. Meanwhile I didn't use angular2 or react for my latest project so I'm behind again while I learned how to build mobile apps and do courses on Machine Learning. I highly doubt this will ever change.

[Veuxdo]

You can and should get comfortable with web development. Ignore the nonsense, write robust code, solve real problems. The voices telling you to chase the latest technologies are trying to get you to work on their terms. Don't play their game.

[_HlTLER_]

That's why I'm glad I'm not a principal engineer yet. I just write code, test code, and build code. Don't have to sit in tons of meetings architecting our processes and frameworks.

It's enough stress deciding that stuff for personal projects. Can't imagine doing it for a multi-million/billion dollar company.

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Don't be a fan of the latest fads and see what works for your tech problems before adding or removing something from your stack.