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2020 Look-back Top Development Trends + Goals

In this episode JP and John do a retrospective look on the past year. Our goals and what we accomplished as well as some key industry trends.

John: Welcome to Iteration, a podcast about programming, development, and design.

John Intro — My name is John and I am a software developer for a home services startup.
JP Intro — Hi, I'm JP and I am a software developer at a small analytics startup

Goal 1 (JP): Build Elixir App: (C+)
- I did build a really quick proof of concept Rust API that spits out some JSON
- I also followed a tutorial for a full stack Golang app
Goal 2 (JP): System Design (F)
- Did not read the books that I wanted to read
Goal 3 (JP): Algorithms - (C+)
- Just haven't had the time - but I have reviewed some array based algorithms FWIW

John

Goal 1 (John): Blog More (C+) (12+ posts)
Goal 2 (John): (F) System Design (Nope)
Goal 3 (John): JavaScript (B+) 2 Courses, built way more shit in JS Stimulus Mainly
Goal 4 (John): Focus 💯 (Closed agency, no more clients, doubled down on what I am good at)

Remote Work 😷
- Remote jobs used to have a requirement of having remote experience... now everyone has this experience
Commercialization of Open source 🤑
- "Open source" that's also a product / company
- https://www.gatsbyjs.com/
- https://nextjs.org/ (Vercel)
- https://www.cypress.io/
- https://www.sanity.io/
- https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq
- Even Microsoft acquisition of Github and continued changes there VS Code → Atom
"Niche" frameworks 🍾
- https://svelte.dev/
- https://github.com/alpinejs/alpine
  - This is Tailwinds' go-to for a JS solution
  - bridgetown
"Hey" made server rendered sexy again 👋
JavaScript continued to eat the world 🍽️
- Vue 3 added a composition API that's very similar to React Hooks
Low Code / No Code ✨
Data warehousing 🤓

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