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Brushing up or Bootstrapping?



 
 
Every developer worth his or her salt goes through a peculiar cycle every 4 years or so... Should they learn this new shiny language to "broaden their horizons"? … or should they double down and "go in-depth" in the programming language(s) they already know? 

 

Like everything else, the truth lies somewhere in the middle.

 

Your clients are looking for a solution. 99% of them don't care (or won't understand) whether you build it using NodeJS, GO, or Rust. If it's fast, cheap, and shiny, it's good enough for them. So, what's the answer to the question at the top?

What we need to do is maintain our expertise in the language we know while simultaneously checking out what's the hype around the new languages. Sometimes, the bells and whistles of the new language are just an import library away.


Sometimes, it's as revolutionary as the switch to object oriented programming.

 


So, how do you do both? There's only 86.4k seconds in a day. Right?


Option #1

You can check out educational courses on CodeAcademy, edX, or even LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda) but there's a big caveat of missing the forest for the trees when sprinting through instructor-led courses. Without practice and without projects, you're not learning, you're a hamster on a wheel. So, that needs time commitment and that's limited. Thus, these courses are better for brushing up on your knowledge of the language you already know by choosing specific function-driven courses that you really need to learn. 


Option #2

You can also try attending online webinars and workshops - probably the most underrated feature of the Internet. Some of the FAAMGs (Facebook Amazon Apple Microsoft Google) routinely host such sessions to help their dev pools interact with the broader developer community. On the other hand, other devs get to rub shoulders with the hallowed FAAMG(ed) devs.
 

It's a win-win.



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