How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016
I'm a web dev, been doing this 11 years. But i totally feel past it, granted i code less and less nowadays so i havent kept up with new technologies.<p>I've hired people that are much better at web dev than me and let them accomplish a task with pretty much whatever tech they want to use, because i believe you shouldn't constrict a developer if you dont have to. Even for a simple app that it'd take me 20 - 30 hours for me to create in basic jQuery, bootstrap and simple PHP/MySQL, the tendency is to pull in Angular, Laravel, gulp or grunt, composer dependencies and a whole host of code for doing something really simple. It ends up becoming a frigging nightmare to  maintain and deploy, i just want to do a git pull and thats it deployed, but instead i've gotta do artisan commands, migrations, grunt commands etc etc etc.<p>Anyway, i tell myself that what their doing is a better way of doing things and i'm just someone with outdated knowledge, because when i do it, i use basic tech and accomplish the same task in less time and with WAAAY less lines of code. While its maybe not the best practices, its simple.<p>I still feel like a bad coder because i'm not doing it their way. :(