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You're making a lot of anecdotal generalizations here that contribute to the problem rather than help address it. What kind of music somebody likes or the clothing they're comfortable with shouldn't be part of the conversation at all, and for every anecdotal old-guy that hates Electron, I've met an anecdotal old-guy who's sharp as a tack and pushing the envelope with the latest tech.

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> for every anecdotal old-guy that hates Electron

Any sane person with half a brain hates Electron.

(Not that there are any good alternatives, but still...)

The chances that YOU, when you reach same age, will be interested in pushing the envelope with the latest tech, are very low. The chances that you will find "latest tech" absurd and would rather be starving than pushing said envelope, are very high. When I was young, I couldn't even imagine the future with Spring framework, Hibernate, Angular, AWS configuration etc. The profession is dead for me, and has been dead for quite some time. This is my own anecdotal evidence, sorry.

Your bad attitude doesn't have anything to do with me.

You can't know what your future attitude will be like. Bookmark this post and review it 20 years later :)

But the phenomenon I'm talking about is well established in psychology: https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/mr-personality/20141...

The older I get, the more 'liberal' I get.

I think it comes from having more and more empathy.

The more I live, the less I feel I can judge people and their choices. Even if it is to prefer Mongo over Postgres :-)

Mongo support acid transactions nowadays, so the reason for vitriol has lessened a lot. I like my explicit db schema though.

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