You Can’t Get Comfortable in Web Development

I’ve been thinking a lot about the topic of “JavaScript Fatigue” and have had a number of exchanges with other developers about their opinions and, most importantly, their concerns. The post, How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016, by Jose Aguinaga kicked off quite a bit of debate of what I feel has been a growing concern to the amount of tooling necessary to build web sites and applications. On one side you have many empathizing with the complexities of building JavaScript apps while the other voicing their support for the evolution of web development. I tweeted out my perspective on what I think is causing so much angst and it seems to have resonated:
What I think is happening. Devlprs are freaking out cuz theyre looking at what they need to do to stay relevant & it’s hard to pick a route.
— Rey Bango (@reybango) October 4, 2016
Since I only had 140 chars to say that in, let me elaborate a bit.
The Good Old Days
What I mean by this is that many web developers who have been able to hang their hat on a specific technology for “x” years are incredibly concerned by the rate of churn in the JavaScript (and web development) world. They can’t
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