Worse, you dip your toes in a new language and then suddenly that is your new hammer for which will solve all of your problems.
There is something to be said for a craftsman who has achieved a master level with his tools and not simply shopping at Home Depot every month buying the next wizbangfixitall framework. It's as if Christmas comes every 2 months and you unwrap a shinny new hammer (framework/language/database/etc) for which everything must be smashed with.
Re:How to Become a Better Developer
by jackweirdy on Tuesday December 24, 2013 @07:22PM
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You're still using a hammer?
You should be using hammer.js
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Careful with this point. A lot of people take this to heart a bit too much and dip their toes into 10+ different languages with only a couple weeks each. This is definitely a big mistake. While it's good to learn technologies that are different from what you know, you need to actually learn them, not play with them for a week. This means actually building something substantial and at least a few months of heavy usage. You need to really understand the technology and the reasons for the decisions the technology makes before the learning will be transferable beyond meaningless syntax.