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Valentin Radu • Edited

This is great advice, for a stable-job kind of person (i.e. looking for a good work-life balance). If you're hired, preferably in an already established company, then follow this advice and you'll stay away from trouble forever <3.

But life is dull with no trouble at all! You'll end up writing monolithic backends using Perl in 2020 😅. Not that there's something wrong with Perl per se, but we have better options for that today.

Also, when trying to bring something new to the market, or if you're really into continuous learning, using new techs can help your company/personal brand.

You'll be among the first to have know-how in a hopefully rising tech. As the hype grows, you'll have a very good position to negotiate from.
Of course, using x.0 (or betas/alphas) most of the times means actively participating to the product/library. This means effort, but also good opportunities to learn stuff.