Ask HN: Anyone else feel like their whole career will just be tech debt?
There is so much churn in software. For new kids its easy, you just pick up the latest thing. But for older folks, over the years you've placed bets on longevity of stuff, invested in the ecosystem, only to see those replaced overnight by new projects. It's despairing.
At every point, you felt like the tech was good enough, but then the community and ecosystem just packed up and left somewhere else - to something that is not debuggable, and has crappy IDE support, and is slow to compile (e.g. Rust) or even run (e.g. React). And this is going to keep happening.
Does anyone see this changing anytime soon? I just want to have one stack and master it.
At every point, you felt like the tech was good enough, but then the community and ecosystem just packed up and left somewhere else - to something that is not debuggable, and has crappy IDE support, and is slow to compile (e.g. Rust) or even run (e.g. React). And this is going to keep happening.
Does anyone see this changing anytime soon? I just want to have one stack and master it.