You can probably stay at the edge if that’s your job, being a researcher. If you, let’s say, write javascript frameworks for a living and you specialize in that. But if you have to deal with clients, budgets and need to meet deadlines, there’s not enough time in the day to learn every new exciting thing.
Considering a regular job involves working 8 hours a day you’d be constantly having a day job and taking evening classes. Kinda forever. And I’m not even including personal life here.
So you either learn the latest thing and you make a living writing tutorials, speak at conferences all year long etc., or you become very selective of how you invest your time to assimilate new technologies.
Matt Smith
11y agoThis comment was made in response to “The State of JavaScript in 2015”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8679245
Stelian Firez
11y agoYou can probably stay at the edge if that’s your job, being a researcher. If you, let’s say, write javascript frameworks for a living and you specialize in that. But if you have to deal with clients, budgets and need to meet deadlines, there’s not enough time in the day to learn every new exciting thing.
Considering a regular job involves working 8 hours a day you’d be constantly having a day job and taking evening classes. Kinda forever. And I’m not even including personal life here.
So you either learn the latest thing and you make a living writing tutorials, speak at conferences all year long etc., or you become very selective of how you invest your time to assimilate new technologies.