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2024-06-14 23:28 UTC

This has been brewing in my head for a long time. The frontend ecosystem is kind of broken right now. And it's frustrating to me for a few different reasons. New developers are having an extremely hard time learning enough skills to be gainfully employed. They are drowning in this complex garbage and feeling really disheartened. As a result, companies are finding it more difficult to do basic hiring. The bar is so high just to get a regular dev job. And everybody loses.

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  • @polotek@social.polotek.net 2024-06-14 23:30

    What's even worse is that I believe a lot of this energy is wasted. People that are learning the current tech ecosystem are absolutely not learning web fundamentals. They are too abstracted away. And when the stack changes again, these folks are going to be at a serious disadvantage when they have to adapt away from what they learned. It's a deep disservice to people's professional careers, and it's going to cause a lot of heartache later.

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  • @chrisisgr8@tech.lgbt 2024-06-15 00:35

    @polotek@social.polotek.net half the reason i have been slow about learning more (web) frontend than "html, css, js, and jinii/django template markup" is because of this dynamic, i have no idea which framework is gonna be the magic word for a job and they all look like a bit of a mess, and all the meanwhile i have yet to really need more than the essentials to make what i want when doing my own work. it's on the list of things i'd like to get to anyway

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  • @meena@cathode.church 2024-06-15 08:37

    @polotek@social.polotek.net it's not just frontend: after being out of the DevOps loop for three - five years, I'm finding it completely impossible to reenter the field, to the point that l'm considering a career change.

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