Maybe I got a little too worked up in my other comment. Maybe you didn’t mean the tone that I took your comment as.
But in a serious answer to your last sentence ” And the thing is, I don’t know if I just learned web dev if I would love this new approach to software that is eating the world and I would “get it”. Or if it just exists because JavaScript developers don’t want to learn something new.”
My opinion is the answer is a resounding “No, you will not just get it”.
This is a complicated question of course, but to distill my thoughts down
1) You do not need to view web development as a threat to your skill set. You didn’t say specifically what stack you work in, but I have to believe that you will be able to continue making a living in it.
2) Tools like Deno are specifically designed for and intended for web developers to be able to easily leverage their skill set in other areas like systems.
So if your not a web developer, and you don’t have a particular interest in learning web languages/ APIs, then don’t worry about it. Just because it’s trendy right now doesn’t make it a better approach technically speaking. It’s quite possibly worse than the approaches you know.
So what I’m saying is this tool isn’t meant for you. And that’s ok. Just because it makes HN front page and web development is huge right now, doesn’t diminish the tech you know to be good.
Last sentence of the blog post:
”The Deno company hopes to enable the millions of web programmers out there to maximally leverage their craft in other domains.”
But in a serious answer to your last sentence ” And the thing is, I don’t know if I just learned web dev if I would love this new approach to software that is eating the world and I would “get it”. Or if it just exists because JavaScript developers don’t want to learn something new.”
My opinion is the answer is a resounding “No, you will not just get it”.
This is a complicated question of course, but to distill my thoughts down
1) You do not need to view web development as a threat to your skill set. You didn’t say specifically what stack you work in, but I have to believe that you will be able to continue making a living in it.
2) Tools like Deno are specifically designed for and intended for web developers to be able to easily leverage their skill set in other areas like systems.
So if your not a web developer, and you don’t have a particular interest in learning web languages/ APIs, then don’t worry about it. Just because it’s trendy right now doesn’t make it a better approach technically speaking. It’s quite possibly worse than the approaches you know.
So what I’m saying is this tool isn’t meant for you. And that’s ok. Just because it makes HN front page and web development is huge right now, doesn’t diminish the tech you know to be good.
Last sentence of the blog post: ”The Deno company hopes to enable the millions of web programmers out there to maximally leverage their craft in other domains.”