Boring technologies that work and will continue to work with the minimum of lock-in and fuss long into the future are what get me excited now.
I know plenty people that are stuck in Python and are some middle mangers and just yell bah! at everything new.
I’ve worked through the whole stack, am now heavily in elixir, work in a cutting edge LLM company and feel I’m better than I ever was. There’s a balance.
I've shifted career and work as a photographer now, so remain ultra-conservative in my technology choices because I know I don't want to expend the time and mental energy to adopt over-complex solutions. It's less about how old/new they are, and more using the right tool for the job.
PS: Glad to see Elixir cropping up more and more. I loved using it before I changed careers, and still keep tabs on it. I've got an idea for a small API/service that might benefit my work, and unless I stumble upon a more appropriate choice, it'll likely be based on Phoenix.
I can see a top tier game engine developer talking with skepticism about current web tech, but it's more often coming from something like enterprise java devs from the 2000s that used to take months fudging with class hierarchies to deliver a basic form GUI. The kind that must take any opportunity to denounce electron apps but would never give up VS Code and go back to Eclipse.
I like learning new things but the industry shouldn't follow latest trends for any project. https://boringtechnology.club/