Gregory's ServerFOMO in tech is a disease and is working against anyone who wants to tackle hard & important problems. I don't know any other sophisticated/technical industry where trends matter this much, and have this level of impact. We routinely force people to drop what they do and pivot to catch a bus they already missed.
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   @pettter @kate @rakyll I remember working for a startup long ago, looking for maybe-customers (people who had a burning problem we could solve, basically) and I went looking at the publicly listed investments of various VC firms, and it was like Pokemon trainers. Each one had a Fire, and a Water, and a Ground, and an Electric, etc. Gotta catch 'em all!  @rakyll I had this happen to me recently when I decided to show the Android developer community how I build small and fast Android apps. It broke many people's logic because "your code is so simple and straightforward, really refreshing" but "you aren't using the best practices which means it's an unmaintainable mess in case a team of 50 developers (49 of them junior) needs to work on it". @grishka @rakyll After my experiences with Kotlin and Compose, which basically consisted of trying to beat it into submission so it would do what it was told, I am inclined to go back and learn the XML approach if I want to write another app. It wound up about 3.5 MB, which isn't TOO bad, but I think it could be smaller without Compose. I saw a 100+ MB app for a connected light bulb, which earned the bulb a bad Amazon review. |
@rakyll you're so right. Devs are afflicted by FOMO, and tech managers doubly so.