Christmas thoughts: Why Senior Engineers hate 'cool' new frameworks (and why you should too).
Source: Dev.to
The Reaction to New Frameworks
“Have you seen UltraJS 5.0? It was released 4 minutes ago on Twitter. We need to rewrite the entire production backend immediately because it supports Quantum Rendering. The old legacy code (written 6 months ago) is trash.”
The Senior:
Debugging Style
Panic mode. Randomly changing lines of code.
The Senior:
Dealing with Repetitive Tasks
Will manually check 500 JSON logs to find an error. “It’s fine, I’m fast with Ctrl+F.”
The Senior:
The “Code Deletion” Joy
Measures productivity by lines of code added.
The Senior:
The Answer to Everything
Has a strong opinion on everything.
The Senior:
Senior vs Junior Dialogue
- Junior: “How do I implement this feature?”
- Senior: “Should we implement this feature? And if we do, what will break in 6 months?”
If you are a Junior feeling overwhelmed because you don’t know every syntax or library: relax. We don’t either. We are just better at Googling things and terrifyingly good at predicting what will go wrong.
What is your favorite “Senior Developer trait”? Let me know in the comments.
— The Lazy Dev