Many years ago, someone tried to get me into cryptocurrencies. "They're the future of money!" they said. I replied saying that I'd rather wait until they were more useful, less volatile, easier to use, and utterly reliable. "You don't want to get left behind, do you?" They countered. That struck me as a bizarre sentiment. What is there to be left behind from? If BitCoin (or whatever) is going…
  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
    70·
    2 天前

    For every HTML 2.0 you might have tried, you were just as likely to have got stuck in the dead-end of Flash.

    This one hurt. I had a decade plus old piece of tech debt from when they fucking killed flash before I could move on to new projects.

    • Redkey@programming.dev
      26·
      2 天前

      I sympathize with the point of the article, but if someone’s seriously citing Flash, which had widespread success for a run of about 15 years before being overtaken by later developments (driven in part by a billionaire with an axe to grind), as a short-lived “dead end” that was best avoided, then how long do they think is a sensible amount of time to wait to see if something’s worth spending time and effort? Nothing remains on top forever.

      • lad@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        8 小时前

        Well, I’m still waiting for that new language everyone is talking about to mature enough for being really useful, it’s not even 50 years old yet, that C++ lang

    • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world
      23·
      2 天前

      Flash had its use. I think a better analogy for me is web frameworks.

      I remember in the mid 2000s there seems to be a new one every week. “LOL, you aren’t using Ruby On Rails? Peasant!” “LOL, you aren’t using Django? Peasant!”

      Still seems to be the case with Electron, React, Node, blah blah blah.

      Running to stand still.

      • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
        7·
        2 天前

        “LOL, you aren’t using Django? Peasant!”

        … I’m working on learning Django to get a job… should I stop? What should I use instead?

        My webserver I’ve had for a while supports basically that.

        • Logi@lemmy.world
          2·
          9 小时前

          … I’m working on learning Django to get a job… should I stop? What should I use instead?

          As the other comment said, Django isn’t going anywhere. I’d not start a new project in it, but it’ll be with us for a long time.

          For a more modern (and better) python stack, but which is also definitely here to stay, I’d look at FastAPI with sqlalchemy.

        • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
          18·
          2 天前

          Django isn’t going anywhere. The point is not to jump on the latest fad, which Django isn’t.

      • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 天前

        I feel like the web framework question has stabilized in recent years. React and node (not a web framework but in a similar boat) are stable and common, and angular and a few others are good alternatives.