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> time is possibly too short (especially if you have kids) to learn new things that aren't simple, even if better

Having a kid has drastically altered my ability to learn new things outside of work, simply due to lack of time. I never could have imagined how big of an impact having a kid would be, its crazy!

The worst thing is when you actually manage to carve out some time to do some learning or experimentation with a new tool, library, etc only to find out that it sucks or you just don't have the time to pick up or whatever.




> Having a kid has drastically altered my ability to learn new things outside of work, simply due to lack of time. I never could have imagined how big of an impact having a kid would be, its crazy!

yeah, I could have written this verbatim. Either I was not warned enough, or I did not pay enough attention/heed whatever I was warned of. I don't have a large family, so I've basically had ZERO kid experience since I was a kid... yikes... almost 50 years ago LOL. What worries me though is that it's kind of been an assumption at this job that you DO spend some off-duty time learning/tinkering. And I enjoyed it!

> The worst thing is when you actually manage to carve out some time to do some learning or experimentation with a new tool, library, etc only to find out that it sucks

I got briefly excited about the V language to maybe use for little utility scripts and maybe even as a first teaching language for my kid, then realized that when you scratch the surface of it it's basically kind of ugly underneath. (Example- The "this should never happen" error was literally most of the errors, lol.) It looks like something with a lot of great ideas but slipshod not-deeply-thought-out implementation. And the final nail in the coffin was all the evidence that the language creator simply bans anyone with valid criticism- I'm a free-speech near-absolutist so that one was the killer for me.

One of a few examples of what you're referring to. The thing is, before kids, we could afford to waste that time. Now we cannot. :/




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