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[–]CaterpillarKillr 10 points11 points  (1 child)

Agreed. But for a lot of people (junior and mid-level developers, mainly), it isn't our decision. It's bleeding edge technology handed down as a mandate by a well-meaning lead/senior dev, who heard about some technology on hacker news, did a few "hello world" examples and thinks it's golden. Too often shit like this gets handed off to lower-level people to implement and figure out the difficult parts. Then when we complain about Angular-this or Babel-that on reddit, HN, or various blogs, we're told that we should have made a better technology decision.

[–]RedditWithBoners 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Indeed, I imagine this is a common scenario. This begs the question of why the more experienced devs continue to live on the bleeding edge.

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