Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Angular, Ember, Aurelia, Backbone Programmers NOT Wanted

LosTechies.com has a totally awesome and relevant new post: Platform generalists versus framework specialists.
A trend I’ve noticed especially in Javascript/front-end jobs are emphasizing, requiring, even titling jobs after specific Javascript frameworks. “Ember.js engineer needed”. “Angular programmer”. This raises a few of thoughts for me: 
  • Is the framework so complicated you need someone with extensive experience building non-trivial apps?
  • Is your timeline so short you don’t have time to teach anyone a framework?
My only gripe is with this line: "I want to be a web expert, a messaging expert, a REST expert, a distributed systems expert. "  Even though I love REST, I no more want to be a REST expert than an Angular expert.

For the record, I want to be a Craftsman, a Clean Coder, a code monkey, a web expert, a messaging expert, a business rules expert, an amazing technical lead and development manger, and a development god. #smallGoals :-)

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