alt Hacker NewsI've been doing full-stack Dev (mostly Django though I foolishly had a brief moment where I kinda thought Flask was okay then fell for the same dumb thing briefly with FastAPI) for 20+ years and don't feel marketable.
I went from jQuery to a brief dalliance with Angular to HTMX+_HyperScript. Everyone wants full stack Devs to use react and struggle eternally with insane dependency trees and challenging client side state management.
I like to build things that can be maintained in perpetuity by small teams.
So I'm not very marketable.
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Write a script that tidies up and fixes everything in a repo.
Dude. You are marketable as fuck.
Don’t live in the hype. Not everyone is drinking the ai cool-aid bottoms up.
What do you mean by fastapi being a mistake ?
I'm full stack for 19 years and I love React, and I've been laid off for 1.5 years now. This is a terrible job market right now.
That doesn't mean you don't have good skills, it just means that too many people have them. It happens from time to time in every industrial, for all skills.
Obviously, I don't have any good advice about how to deal with it.