Not taking a job because one doesn’t like jQuery, C#, or ruby, etc, legit?
It definitely matters for future job prospects and personal happiness.
Matters to me personally.
You could not pay me to code in Ruby as the primary language these days. I had enough of that years ago.
It's just one factor, and for me not usually the most important one. But it's valid to feel any way you like about a tech stack, and I've never been confronted with a truly terrible choice.
Spoken like a dev that has never been asked to maintain a 20 year old VB6 winforms application
That is correct!
It definitely matters! I've completely removed jQuery off my resume. All it does is attract companies that don't want to keep up
Yes, the job has to be bearable technically on top of other non technical considerations.
It matters to me, but not because tech is not transferable. I don't want to hate every hour of work, which would happen if I hated the tech.
Same. I’d use Ruby/Rails because it’s fun even tho it’s dead. I won’t use NodeJS/Deno because I have zero desire to work in Javascript all day, but they’re very much not dead.
@coinbase I like coding in good TypeScript, I just hate spaghetti NodeJS.