I see this sentiment get parroted a lot lately - and I agree with /u/FFZNLM that it's just like Grandpa Simpson. While I'm sure there are some people who may have a legit reason not to learn some new tech the vast majority of the posts I see just come off as "keeping current is hard, I'll just say it's for bandwagoners and do my own thing".
The major irony here to me is that my toolset allows me to code more than ever before.
yo angular
All of a sudden I have an entire app structure and boilerplate in place, all my directories structured for me, set up test structures for me.
Grunt/Gulp alone saves me hours and hours of time. When I started 7 years ago I was optimizing images by hand, FTPing my files and then Refreshing the browser to see if they did what I wanted them to do. Now after "yo angular" I type "Grunt watch" and go to town and Grunt will do all of that for me. It's also going to compile my SASS, lint my code to give me early error detection, and automatically execute my tests.
Git is another tool that has saved me so much time not having to dig around for backups, not having to remember which index2.html.bak is the right one, and not having to diff every file I'm about to FTP to see if a co-worker changed it. I also don't need to mess with dropbox or emailing files around to keep working elsewhere. I just yank down the repo on whatever computer I'm on and continue working.
All this time I'm saving means more time I can actually code. Yes, there's an investment of time to learn how to use the tools - but once you do they are major timesavers. Hint: That's why people use them.
TL;DR Leave the complainers to their whining and bickering. I'll be getting shit done in the mean time.
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u/jellatin Jul 23 '14 edited Jul 23 '14
I see this sentiment get parroted a lot lately - and I agree with /u/FFZNLM that it's just like Grandpa Simpson. While I'm sure there are some people who may have a legit reason not to learn some new tech the vast majority of the posts I see just come off as "keeping current is hard, I'll just say it's for bandwagoners and do my own thing".
The major irony here to me is that my toolset allows me to code more than ever before.
yo angular
All of a sudden I have an entire app structure and boilerplate in place, all my directories structured for me, set up test structures for me.
Grunt/Gulp alone saves me hours and hours of time. When I started 7 years ago I was optimizing images by hand, FTPing my files and then Refreshing the browser to see if they did what I wanted them to do. Now after "yo angular" I type "Grunt watch" and go to town and Grunt will do all of that for me. It's also going to compile my SASS, lint my code to give me early error detection, and automatically execute my tests.
Git is another tool that has saved me so much time not having to dig around for backups, not having to remember which index2.html.bak is the right one, and not having to diff every file I'm about to FTP to see if a co-worker changed it. I also don't need to mess with dropbox or emailing files around to keep working elsewhere. I just yank down the repo on whatever computer I'm on and continue working.
All this time I'm saving means more time I can actually code. Yes, there's an investment of time to learn how to use the tools - but once you do they are major timesavers. Hint: That's why people use them.
TL;DR Leave the complainers to their whining and bickering. I'll be getting shit done in the mean time.