A tech stack should be a well-balanced portfolio
&gt; If you’re too boring it gets hard to recruit. You don’t want trend chasers joining, but good candidates have a healthy want and interest in new technology.<p>I think this is worth examining in a lot more detail.<p>I accept that candidates are going to be put off by obsolete or terrible technology. I wouldn&#x27;t take a job working on a Java 1.7 codebase, for example. Or ATG (now Oracle Commerce) - i did three years on that, and will never touch it again.<p>But if a candidate is motivated to take a job because they get to use shiny new technology, i would suggest that they are not, in fact, a good candidate. In my experience, magpieism is associated with weaker programmers; not the very worst, but second quartile, say - people who get very engaged with superficial details, but don&#x27;t think about deeper things.