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Re: I feel like I made a mistake investing professionally into Flutter

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Post by demarq »

tkiolp4 wrote: post #15

I don’t buy it. As software developers we learn technologies for breakfast. We learn them, and then we forget them. We recollect the wisdom gained and apply it in our next gig using a different technology. It works for mobile development, for frontend, for backend, for infra, for almost anything. I have worked for years with PHP, Apache, Ansible and MySQL. Nowadays not anymore. And in 7 years I’ll be using something…

Absolutely, I feel I could be employed tomorrow in a language or stack that I haven’t even heard of and start being productive by the end of the week!

I seriously think you owe it to yourself to practice learning something new every week. It often takes one afternoon to get a “taste” and small side project to get beyond that.

Every programming language. Is literally just a template for instructions, and every technology just an abstraction over some crud somewhere.

Re: I feel like I made a mistake investing professionally into Flutter

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Post by ThinkBeat »

Id say that its the wrong way to think about it. As long as you are working in the software engineering field change is a near certainty.

You will not hit on a technology / framework / product that will keep you going for 40 years. [1]

Working with Flutter you have learned a lot that is valuable going forward. Learning to adopt new tools is part of the job.

Re: I feel like I made a mistake investing professionally into Flutter

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Post by mhoad »

zigzag312 wrote: post #5

Dart is my biggest issue with Flutter. It's still missing ergonomic features like data classes and lower level things like unsigned 64-bit integers. There is no runtime reflection, which I think is a good thing for end user apps, but it's also missing static metaprogramming. And code generation is not integrated into a complier. Since, there is no runtime reflection, metaprogramming & integrated code-gen are sorely n…

Dart is actually hands down one of the most productive languages out there right now in terms of ergonomics. It’s still a tiny language ecosystem at the moment but there are already a lot of happy paths that will get you to an incredibly high level of quality with very little work.

Re: I feel like I made a mistake investing professionally into Flutter

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Post by tkiolp4 »

littlecranky67 wrote: post #20
tkiolp4 wrote: post #15

I don’t buy it. As software developers we learn technologies for breakfast. We learn them, and then we forget them. We recollect the wisdom gained and apply it in our next gig using a different technology. It works for mobile development, for frontend, for backend, for infra, for almost anything. I have worked for years with PHP, Apache, Ansible and MySQL. Nowadays not anymore. And in 7 years I’ll be using something…

I agree, but unfortunately hiring managers, recruiter etc. don't think like this. If you happen to find a person that is tech-savy, they can asses your true skillsets and capabilitiy of solving problems. Hiring managers and recruiter match buzzwords in your CV. I recently got rejected for a project from an agency (am a contractor) because I did not have provable skills or knowledge in "CI/CD". Stupid me, made the mis…

> Hiring managers and recruiter match buzzwords in your CV

So? You put those buzzwords in your CV. What’s difficult about that? You feel like being dishonest? If so, again, just explain in the next stage of the interview (with real engineers) that you do have real world experience in similar but not exactly the same technologies listed in your CV. You just did so to pass through HR. Not a big deal (as long as you’re confident and believe you can learn technologies easily)

Re: I feel like I made a mistake investing professionally into Flutter

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Post by glimshe »

I only invest in company-sponsored tech after the market share grows to a ver significant number. A lot of what is sold as "the future of X" is just marketing. Flutter and Dart in particular failed to thrive, as many of these technologies do, and are evolutionary dead ends (despite the remaining die-hard users).

Re: I feel like I made a mistake investing professionally into Flutter

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Post by dwattttt »

tkiolp4 wrote: post #24
littlecranky67 wrote: post #20

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I agree, but unfortunately hiring managers, recruiter etc. don't think like this. If you happen to find a person that is tech-savy, they can asses your true skillsets and capabilitiy of solving problems. Hiring managers and recruiter match buzzwords in your CV. I recently got rejected for a project from an agency (am a contractor) because I did not have provable skills or knowledge in "CI/CD". Stupid me, made the mis…

> Hiring managers and recruiter match buzzwords in your CV So? You put those buzzwords in your CV. What’s difficult about that? You feel like being dishonest? If so, again, just explain in the next stage of the interview (with real engineers) that you do have real world experience in similar but not exactly the same technologies listed in your CV. You just did so to pass through HR. Not a big deal (as long as you’re…

I would assume the problem comes up the next time his CV gets rejected for not having "Continuous Integration" on it.

Re: I feel like I made a mistake investing professionally into Flutter

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Post by nailer »

ThinkBeat wrote: post #22

Id say that its the wrong way to think about it. As long as you are working in the software engineering field change is a near certainty. You will not hit on a technology / framework / product that will keep you going for 40 years. [1] Working with Flutter you have learned a lot that is valuable going forward. Learning to adopt new tools is part of the job.

Time is a limited resource. Choosing to invest in the right technologies at the right time is the important part of a career in tech.
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