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In some ways, I feel like I've done a disservice to myself for taking a year away from .NET development to work on the Java stack. And then to take a job at a large bank in a group whose sole purpose is to put out fires it seems. The disservice sentiment occurs to me as I try to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. When I see some of the cool things people are doing in the software development scene, it occurs to me that I am on the healing edge of development. The bleeding edge has already went through days/weeks/months/years ago, and the healing is all but complete. I want to learn React. I start working through a class on Pluralsight, and realize I should learn how to use these task runners. Then I realize I should learn how to be more proficient with JavaScript. It's been a few years since I worked in pure JavaScript, so that seems like a reasonable building block to nourish. Then there's TypeScript. Whoa. Wut? Statically typed JavaScript? That seems pretty sw...