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Discussion on: What advice will you give to developers who are just starting their careers?

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Alain Van Hout • Edited

The goal isn’t to be a rockstar developer, it’s to provide business value in a maintainable way. That includes using dependable languages and frameworks, writing maintainable code, forging good relationships in your team (and beyond that), keeping a work/life balance, ... It’s fine using fancy new frameworks or cutting edge libraries if the situation allows it, but be aware of the costs/benefits ratio when you do that.

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Joris

This is a very underrated statement! Young devs always want the newest and most fancy frameworks but you must realise that there will be people after you and your code will continue to run. Try to build understandable and dependable code for the sake of the company and everyone who comes after you!