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Can you name another profession that throws out its tools so often?

Then... Don't keep throwing out your tools?

Then... Don't plan on lasting more than 10 years in the software industry?

This is exclusively a problem with web development. I work in fintech, writing C and using the gnu toolchain. We are a very successful business.

Mobile, Full Stack and Data Engineering also have similar issues. Not as bad as anything related to javascript though.

Even still, a search for "jQuery" on a jobs board typically still returns plenty of results.

Though I believe you're correct, this is not a problem inherent to web development. There's absolutely nothing stopping you from pinning things to specific versions other than the fact that projects couple security updates with breaking feature additions.

That’s not an answer to their question

Their reply was a non sequitur because they didn't understand the analogy.

But anyway most "fixes" are really just changing systems to adapt to change in other systems. I spent 3+ years at Google just migrating this and that and the other subsystem to a different datastore, and knew dozens if not hundreds of developers stuck on a treadmill of constantly rewriting to adapt to other people's rewrites.

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