Ask HN: How quickly do web dev skills become obsolete?

Re:Ask HN: How quickly do web dev skills become obsolete? by Doches on Thursday April 27, 2017 @05:02AM (#14210147)

Good engineers are good engineers, regardless of how "rusty" they may be with particular technologies. I'd take skilled developers with a breadth of experience in unrelated tech over someone who's only worked with the exact set of technologies I'm aiming to use.

In other words, if I'm building an Electron app I'd prefer a solid engineer who has never written a line of Typescript to someone who only knows Electron.

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Re:Ask HN: How quickly do web dev skills become obsolete? by jevgeni on Thursday April 27, 2017 @05:08AM (#14210170)

Thank you!

I agree with you on this.

The reason why I am interested in this, is that in my opinion engineers must always be open to learn new things and new tech. So, I was wondering, if it is possible to make the argument "If you stop learning or at least following the industry for X months, you are out of the game."

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Re:Ask HN: How quickly do web dev skills become obsolete? by Doches on Thursday April 27, 2017 @05:36AM (#14210272)

If you stop learning for a few months, do you somehow lose the ability to start learning again in the future? That seems...unlikely.

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Re:Ask HN: How quickly do web dev skills become obsolete? by jevgeni on Thursday April 27, 2017 @06:49AM (#14210527)

I agree with you completely!

I'm just gathering objective opinions to to able to argue that continous learning is an important skill for engineers to begin with. As in, you can't just finish Uni knowing intermediary programming in Java (for example) and be content with it.

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