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Discussion on: Programmers who only code at work

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Angel Daniel Munoz Gonzalez

Fine by me, fine by them.

it's just that people spend their time differently, there are weeks that I don't want to touch code neither work or mine, other times it reversed.

I think maybe just maybe these people find themselves in a great tech position and there's little they have to do to keep up to date.

Think of this, JavaScript Fatigue. If you want to keep up to date with Everything in the js landscape you will get this fatigue, but if you already have centered for example in a job where is guaranteed that you will only touch angular for the next year, why would you should you worry about other stuff? it's going to work for you and your employer, plus you can catch up in the job with the new angular stuff that may come.

In my case works similar, tough my current job is pure angularjs at the moment (not angular 1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9...…...n+) I have already settled down on Vue, Aurelia and some backend technologies, yeah when I feel happy I do research other stuff, granted but If I really feel tired of coding, I can spend months without looking at my side projects's code, in the end if they already have some knowledge it won't be hard to catch up if they need to

at last I guess that if they are looking for another opportunity they will research and get out of "stagnation", if they don't feel like doing it, they can keep it as is it shouldn't hurt them at all you are referring to seniors after all they should have already learned how to keep up to date if needed