http://perpetual.education is a design/programming school. We like to be part of the discussion over here at Dev.to / We have time-slots for free conversations for career advice IRL : )
We got excited about Elixir (Erlang) / Phoenix etc.
What could possibly be wrong with learning new things?
Well... It depends on your goals. We could all learn the flute - but if the goal was to cook a dinner for 200, then that might be the wrong way to use the time! But if you have the time, the that's great. A friend (a developer but also mostly a business person) recently rewrote their HTML website in Pug. Why, we asked? They said - "well, I don't know." So, there are cases where learning something - that basically destroys the crawl-ability of HTML - for no real reason, might have been the wrong move... but in your case, do you have some spare time? Because programming is fun! Rust is neat! Isn't Deno built on some rust stuff? Seems like a great things to check out. Doesn't Yehuda Katz like rust? He's nice. Sounds like a great idea. You'll have to tell us if it was a good use of your time - in a year. : )
Has it been a whole year?! Not quite, but I figured I should reply year end.
Thanks for commenting. I really want to check out Elixir too. The reality is that I've been quite pragmatic this year, so I only learned what I needed to for my job: React, Python, Java, etc.
PS: I just checked out your site. Sounds like you're an educator. Do you by chance need any mentors or instructors?
http://perpetual.education is a design/programming school. We like to be part of the discussion over here at Dev.to / We have time-slots for free conversations for career advice IRL : )
We're going to require all instructors to go through our entire core curriculum, but - we may have people pop in and share their career stories, or critique work and do code review and stuff at some point. We'll also be building our courses for more advanced and specific topics later.
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We got excited about Elixir (Erlang) / Phoenix etc.
What could possibly be wrong with learning new things?
Well... It depends on your goals. We could all learn the flute - but if the goal was to cook a dinner for 200, then that might be the wrong way to use the time! But if you have the time, the that's great. A friend (a developer but also mostly a business person) recently rewrote their HTML website in Pug. Why, we asked? They said - "well, I don't know." So, there are cases where learning something - that basically destroys the crawl-ability of HTML - for no real reason, might have been the wrong move... but in your case, do you have some spare time? Because programming is fun! Rust is neat! Isn't Deno built on some rust stuff? Seems like a great things to check out. Doesn't Yehuda Katz like rust? He's nice. Sounds like a great idea. You'll have to tell us if it was a good use of your time - in a year. : )
Has it been a whole year?! Not quite, but I figured I should reply year end.
Thanks for commenting. I really want to check out Elixir too. The reality is that I've been quite pragmatic this year, so I only learned what I needed to for my job: React, Python, Java, etc.
PS: I just checked out your site. Sounds like you're an educator. Do you by chance need any mentors or instructors?
RE: mentors / instructors - Mabye!
We're going to require all instructors to go through our entire core curriculum, but - we may have people pop in and share their career stories, or critique work and do code review and stuff at some point. We'll also be building our courses for more advanced and specific topics later.