Ask HN: Do senior Node.js developers actually exist? The title says it all, can someone good at using a relative new technology be considered "senior" at it on some point? |
Ask HN: Do senior Node.js developers actually exist? The title says it all, can someone good at using a relative new technology be considered "senior" at it on some point? |
It's not like being a senior dev in language or framework A magically means you're a complete and hopeless noob the second you switch.
Sure, you'll have rough patches, but being a good senior dev specifically implies that you know yourself well enough to handle such transitions.
I think the difference is you can be a senior developer, but be learning a new stack or learning a particular technology. The key difference is you will recognize the patterns and practices that generally make code more stable, maintainable etc. A person with 1-2 years of total experience will make more mistakes learning any technology than a person with 10 years of experience.
Long answer: Yes. There are very senior engineers where JavaScript/Node.js is just one, of many, languages/runtimes that (s)he works with.
Start with: what does senior mean for me and my company?
In fact, I'd say at a senior level a developer should have considerable breadth of experience and the ability to comparatively evaluate tech stacks, not just skill in using a particular tech stack.
http://www.quora.com/How-is-TJ-Holowaychuk-so-insanely-produ...
He recently left Node.js.
https://medium.com/code-adventures/farewell-node-js-4ba9e7f3...