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Re:Why is Ember fading away? by anoncoward778 on Thursday April 12, 2018 @10:21AM (#16821175)
"Popularity is important if you want to hire developers" 15+ year vet here. I'd have to disagree. Popularity is important if you want to hire green developers. Not if you want good ones.
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Re:Why is Ember fading away? by barrkel on Thursday April 12, 2018 @11:30AM (#16821965)
I've been coding for 25 years, getting paid for it for 21 years.

If you want to grow a team, you need to hire a mix of experience levels. With younger devs, talent is correlated with being opinionated - they have passion that hasn't been balanced by broad experience. And opinions are fashion-led. Find me a young dev who has no real opinions, and I'll show you a dev who has no taste.

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