Ask HN: What Technologies to Learn in 2020?

Re:Ask HN: What Technologies to Learn in 2020? by qorrect on Sunday January 05, 2020 @12:10PM (#21962284)

It's a bit strange to me that you use profitability as your metric of success for a _side project_.

Most of the shiny tech that has severe breaking changes is Javascript - there are plenty of other technologies to have fun with.

The older I get the less I care about the technology choice and the more I care about the content of the project.

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Re:Ask HN: What Technologies to Learn in 2020? by scarface74 on Sunday January 05, 2020 @12:28PM (#21962438)

I have plenty of other things to do with my free time that don’t involve computers. If I’m going to spend time on a side project, it’s only going to either be to make money from the project or learn something that someone will pay me for.

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Re:Ask HN: What Technologies to Learn in 2020? by kugelblitz on Sunday January 05, 2020 @05:14PM (#21964534)

It's one of the metrics, but having kids and thus less time for hobby projects, the more profitable a side project, the more time I can dedicate to it (and reduce my freelance work). And thus I can use it more long-term.

With non-breaking tech, I can focus more on features and monetization instead of updates and debugging.

I still give some space for experimentation (re: frontend I'm interested in learning more about Mithril.js and Svelte), but I don't go all in and risk long-term profitability.

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