Learn or Die: Warding Off My Coding Career's Eventual Obsolescence

I often give technical demos at my work about various topics, and the most recent one was an introduction to ASP.NET Core 1.0 that spawned a lot of blog posts. Overall, this class was well-received (at least I believe so, given that people keep showing up) so hopefully I'll get to continue doing these kinds of presentations.

I often give technical demos at my work about various topics, and the most recent one was an introduction to ASP.NET Core 1.0 that spawned a lot of blog posts. Overall, this class was well-received (at least I believe so, given that people keep showing up) so hopefully I'll get to continue doing these kinds of presentations.

At the end of these sessions, I generally "open the floor" for comments, questions, concerns, extended discussion and the like. During one of these recent classes, a coworker of mine asked about MVC 6's View Components, which are similar to Partial Views except they include functionality with them by being bound to a server-side class. Honestly they look pretty darn awesome, and I'll need to be writing a post about them.

Anyway, this attendee (we'll call him Liam) pointed out something that was frustrating him:

Liam: I just wanted to ask about those View Component things you just showed us.

Matthew: Sure, man.

Liam: They look a lot like User Controls from WebForms, don't they?

Matthew: What, the .ascx file things? I suppose so, but these are more in line with how MVC, and by extension the Web in general, operate.

Liam: It just seems to me that we keep going in circles. I feel like we did this 15 years ago, and now it's being presented back to us as "oh, here's this new thing we came up with, hope you enjoy it" but we already had it. It's not new.

Matthew: I suppose it can feel that way sometimes. Like we're not really doing anything new, just improvements on existing ideas.

Liam: Exactly! I feel like I have to constantly keep learning new ways to accomplish the same things, solve the same problems. After a while, it's kinda like, "what's the point?" I already know how to do this, why should I have to learn it again?

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