&gt; the billions of js frameworks and wars about how everything anyone tries to do is wrong<p>IMO...<p>This isn&#x27;t universal. HN is one of the places where it is the worst. I probably wouldn&#x27;t be fighting with Go right now if it weren&#x27;t for HN; I&#x27;d probably be using Java. Staying up to date isn&#x27;t really as important as it appears. There are people having successful careers with COBOL right now, and while that may not be where you want to go, switching between JS frameworks does not sound any better. And you can basically ignore the JS frameworks. They don&#x27;t matter.<p>Because of HN I switched from TextMate to Sublime Text to Emacs to Vim. What did I get out of it? Not a thing. Maybe I can type a little faster when I am in vim. But mostly I just get annoyed when the rest of the OS doesn&#x27;t support the shortcuts that I am now used to. I switched from Mac to Linux to Mac. I got nothing out of it, except that now I get more annoyed when I can&#x27;t do something on my Mac that I was able to do on Linux. Don&#x27;t do what I did.<p>I think it&#x27;s completely possible to be a developer without all this, as long as you can recognize when you are wasting your time.