What technologies are you going to learn in 2020?

✨ New tech

• Rust: I'm interested in it because it's a fantastic compliment to Elixir. It's also got some interesting use cases with WASM and it's great for CLIs and other native programs. I wrote a simple roguelike game in Rust last month and it was a fun way to get started learning!
• Streaming data system design: I've bought a book on it and am very interested in how to architect this kind of thing in a non-naive way.
• Blockchain?: Can't say for sure on this one. I'm definitely interested but I'm afraid it's a rabbit hole that will suck up too much of my time

⛏️ Digging deeper into

• Elixir: I teach it, so I really have a strong incentive to keep digging deeper into its ecosystem. I'm also using Elixir to build more products, so it's a double win.
• Databases: Along with things like Unix and VIM, learning about databases just keeps on paying off.
• API design: I'm offering a public facing API to my customers in my upcoming product, so this is also key.

Not so much of new tech but go deep into "old/boring techs" is my goal for this year:
go language, PostgreSQL, javascript

Go dipper with Python and improve my Django Framework skill to build a better version of my product.

I use Ruby and Python heavily at work. So those are two languages that definitely will be top of the charts. Even trying to learn Postgres ninja skills and database modelling.

For a side-project, I'm using Elixir Phoenix. I've followed your tutorials @alchemist, they have helped me a lot. Was planning to pick a functional lang since a long time. Tried to pick Clojure, but it is so difficult to think in functional. Elixir seemed familiar, even Phoenix (Rails like).

Frontend wise, I'm falling for Svelte and Tailwind. I've used React, but felt very verbose. Svelte seems nice, I don't know how far someone will go developing UIs. Will pick that up doing a side-project.

My design skills are pathetic, so trying to read around how to improve them. Learning about Figma and Design languages (integrating them in a project). The more I read, more I feel like I don't know much :(

New: AWS, Web Animations

Dig Deeper: Cypress.io and other javascript automation frameworks as they are vital to my product https://uppington.io

I'd like to learn how to implement a third-party key-value store like Redis to move session handling and api throttling from my app

New:

• Next.js
• Android programming with Kotlin
• GraphQL

Deeper:

• Javascript
• CSS (specifically transitions, animations, grid, etc)
• More AWS services

This is also the year I'm going to start learning how to draw (signed up for a four-week basics class through a local art school) so I may get a wacom tablet and start learning to draw digitally too.

Rails.

I expect to deepen my understanding of Elixir and Elm. Both have proven to be worth deeper investment.

I’ll add Rust to the stack, since I need a systems-level language.

I plan to remove more languages and frameworks from my stack than I will add. I want more depth, not breadth.

I also plan to return to my CS roots and sharpen the fundamental skills that transcend individual languages and frameworks - algorithms, data structures, etc.

I’m going to focus on really learning procedural coding with PHP 5.1 and maybe even building web apps with Wordpress as a framework!

Double down on React, tried Svelte but it's too rough around the edges to maintain beside other React projects.
Relearn Typescript and try to use it for most of the new projects.
I'm just in the process of learning Rust and this seems like a great investment given the continuous development of WebAssembly and it's possibilities.

New - Firebase
Deeper - Webflow

New: Shopify integration

Deeper: Azure (specifically: cost, choosing the right tools for the job, Azure Functions), Blazor + Xamarin Forms.

Pretty sporadic, I know. But I think having the ability to build some good Shopify tools could be valuable.

Machine Learning and Elasticsearch is on my list of things to do.

New: PWAs

Dig deeper: JAMstack - React, GatsbyJS, Netlify

New: Svelte
Digging deeper: Backend, GraphQL

I am planning to carry on learning GraphQL and hoping to make a start on Python.

As a backend developer I’ve always hated how the industry is trying to move towards front end only. But this year I decided “if you can’t beat em, join em”. So I’m launching my 2nd SaaS this year, and I decided to ditch the backend and make a Vue application.

I’m really liking it so far. I plan on doubling down on Vue and learning it very well this year.

New:
AWS

Dig Deeper:
Javascript

My plan is to actually NOT learn any new technology. I just want to build stuff this year :)

New tech

• Mobile apps: I have my eye on Vue Native since I'm already familiar with vue. I'd also like to dabble with swift and Kotlin.

Digging deeper

• Linux: I've been using Ubuntu for my desktop for the past 3 years. I can't imagine using anything else but boy have I learned how little I really know about it.
• "My stack": I've jumped around a lot the past few years and I'm really looking forward to doubling down on python, vue.js, and postgres this year. I feel like I've finally found "my stack" and now I'm more interested in honing and mastering my craft as opposed to chasing new shiny things.

I'm going to learn how to pick the right developer to do the job right, so I don't have to learn the tech myself. So, I'm going to learn "outsourcing" technologies. Is that a thing?

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