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Re:The Zen of Missing Out on the Next Great Programming Tool by shubb on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @05:02PM (#11256035)
Early adopting a tech that becomes important = being an rare, high paid experienced expert when it goes mainstream.

Also, these technologies are generally designed to solve some problem, and get adoption because it's a common problem. Struggling with a solved problem rather than using that new tool that solves it is upsetting.

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Re:The Zen of Missing Out on the Next Great Programming Tool by falcolas on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @07:23PM (#11256631)
But it's a gamble. If it fails (and so many do, in a month or a year), then you have a head full of domain specific knowledge that you can't apply to any other technology.

Let's take web templating: How many solutions are out there, and how many of those actually turned out to be winners? To ride the crest of the React wave, you had to pick it out of a thousand others, at a time when there were other "winning" solutions.

And even React is beginning to show signs of falling, with new stars starting to shine. Do you jump ship, or hold the course?

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