As one grows old we learn to avoid learning every new fad until dust settles.
I saved a few brain cells by not bothering with GWT, CoffeeScript, mootools, YUI, prototype...
I saved a few brain cells by not bothering with GWT, CoffeeScript, mootools, YUI, prototype...
It's OK to have skipped CoffeeScript, but you don't want to skip TypeScript in 2018. The past couple of years have been good as it has increasingly harmonized with ES6.
Not everything on the web has to use the normal stacks. I used TypeScript in the past but didn't enjoy the complexity of most JS libs, even with typings. Clojure was a breath of fresh air, and still is.
No thanks :D
GWT was a solid platform for quite a large number of years, and is still used in quite a large number of enterprises. Also, there are a lot of good ideas in there that the JS community is only just catching up to, like dead code elimination.
A lot of modern javascript/typescript syntax is inspired by CoffeeScript. And CS is so trivially easy to learn that "saved a few brain cells" sounds like intellectual laziness.
There's a fair argument to be made for not jumping on the bleeding edge. But your examples are all mature technologies that had good solid lifespans during which people used them to build successful products. If those are fads to you, I'm guessing you must still do most of your work in C?
I'm not saying that job offers requiring e.g. coffeescript don't exist, I'm asking how much more likely you are to find a job that suits you because you know coffeescript?
Since 1993, C only when not allowed to use C++ instead.