Thisarticlewas originally published on .cult byNeil Green..cultis a Berlin-based community platform for developers.
Its a waste of time to attempt to learn every new technology.
Instead, focus on learning how to learn.
The tech industry thrives on the insecurity of softwaredevelopers.
The less a software developer thinks they know, the easier it is to sell them new tech.
It’s free, every week, in your inbox.
They want you to be using their frameworks and libraries, not their competitors.
The more developers they lock into their ecosystem, the more of the global software development mind-share they own.
Their objective is technical dominance, not to make developers more productive.
The fact that top tech companies do not care about software developer productivity should be self-evident.
Do you feel productive when you have to switch technologies every two years?
Software development is a game of productivity: the more product you might ship to production, the better.
If youre not good at playing this game, your project or startup will fail.
A software developer is a factory unto themselves and stopping to learn every new technology halts the factorys production.
They feel lost and confused about what to learn and to what degree to learn it.
The fear of missing out hits our colleagues who are self-taught or fresh out of code school the hardest.
The battlefront of web technologies is where we have the largest body count of software developers with impostor syndrome.
The irony is that the latest technologies are mainly niche solutions that are not generally applicable.
Many companies need traditional websites and nothing more.
However, PHP and jQuery are old and dead, according to top tech companies.
Technical hiring managers are just as insecure as the software developers theyre trying to hire.
After all, isnt adopting new technologies innovation?
Of course it isnt.
Innovation doesnt come from the tool youre using; its a measure of the value of what you produce.
Learning how to learn is the only critical skill a software developer needs.
The best software developer has no favorite technology and does not follow trends.
Is the best tool React?
Is the best tool PHP?
Story by.cult
.cult by Honeypot is a Berlin-based community platform for developers.
