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Discussion on: Do I need to code in my free time to be a good developer?

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Maxim Chechenev

Yeah, and of course you need to stay up to date about current technologies and you cannot just ignore them.

However, it doesn’t mean that I need to drop everything and learn how to work with yet another shiny tool or framework.

I worked in different places where we had possibilities to try new things in production. Not critical projects but some proof of concepts were always good candidates to try different frameworks and processes.

And I’m not encouraging everyone to stop learning, not at all! We all need to continue to learn things, but I believe we should not sacrifice our personal time.