Every senior role is always very arbitrary while the junior ones are very practical. I feel that this is why big companies fail because you can never actually tell if the senior employees fulfill their expectations because it comes down to personal preference.
Stuff like this only shows that it's not worth making too much of an effort since it's not really recognized anyway. The only time effort and monetary benefits go hand in hand is when you are the owner of the company you make your efforts for.
I think a lot of it stems from the fact that it's difficult if not impossible to measure programmer productivity. Once people realise this they start playing political games rather than focussing on their own output.
> I feel that this is why big companies fail because you can never actually tell if the senior employees fulfill their expectations because it comes down to personal preference
Which large tech companies have “failed” since 2010?
Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft were the “large” companies then and are still the large companies now.
Even if I can read it, it's much more of a hassle since I have to translate this into actual html in my brain. Why would I pick this over regular jsx with React? Sure crossplatform is cool, but I already do crossplatform since I only do web dev like most people nowadays.
Maybe I'm not the target customer here, but I have a hard time finding a reason why I should pick something that is much more complex. Speed sure but the gains are not good enough to warrant learning this and if I was a betting man I would bet against it in it's current form due to the learning curve. Also I worry about the financing sine I've read that you guys are taking in VC. Obviously there is some kind of plan in order to make money in the future and I wonder what rug-pull will happen.
The thing is, I have been looking on Rust due to the performance and the potential in wasm (I do very client heavy apps that would benefit from it). But I really don't like the language or the community so I'm basically waiting for other languages to keep up.
When I go in on a technology, I want to master it. So it will require a lot of learning and time investment for me which is my most precious resource and not something I will throw away lightly.
I don't know about the US, but in Sweden scores are dropping because mass immigration. Native swedes do better than ever but the immigrants does very poorly. I would assume the same would be true for basically every western country that have been taking in massive amounts of people from third-world countries.
Even more interesting is that there is an anti-education sentiment from muslim minorities. I think our leaders that force mass immigration on us will be looked down upon and hopefully punished in the future.
As a swede myself I agree somewhat but also I don't think what you're saying is the case anymore, even if it used to be.
Today I think swedes in general consume a lot more sugar and much more in a super processed way that we used to. The culture of only eating candy on saturdays is probably alive and kicking among many children but I think isn't that strong anymore with grown ups. A lot of swedes, including myself, struggle with overweight and I think it is mostly how the food culture has changed to go from european to american inspired.
It's basically impossible to find a restaurant close to a highway that doesn't serve ultra processed food that is cooked in some other kitchen far away or simply fast food where it used to be common place to have basically home cooked meals everywhere you went. Now it's mostly low quality crap food just like the USA.
Also the pasteries to the fikas have changed to be more processed. Everything is made with vegetable oil instead of butter etc. Even things that are supposed to be healthy like yoghurt and similar things are filled up with thickener additives or unnecessary added sugars.
Unfortunately Sweden goes along to be more and more americanized (especially food-wise) and I think it sucks. I wish Sweden would be more like the rest of europe and keep it's food culture.
TL;DR: It used to be like the OP said, but it isn't anymore. It is hard to eat healthy because manufacturer keep pushing so much crap in their products and the availability of crappy food items is just insane.
Stuff like this only shows that it's not worth making too much of an effort since it's not really recognized anyway. The only time effort and monetary benefits go hand in hand is when you are the owner of the company you make your efforts for.