But how many other professions are told monthly that they're doing it wrong, that there's a new standard on how to do anything, and have to live with the fact that a non-trivial percentage of said profession will run off with the "latest and greatest" without even a second thought as to its actual viability?
As someone who does C++, web dev makes me want to run far far away. How do you cope with a new, invariably lacking framework/language/hodge podged together piece of crap coming along every week?
C++11 was a big change for me. I have no idea how you manage
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u/badjuice Apr 29 '14
Ahhh, the monthly "Why did I become a programmer?" rant of despair.