> That market is just nothing but developers who love their toolset and just want to write and learn amazing code.
The risk with this type of developer is they often prioritize their toolset and amazing code over the actual businesses needs. I’ve seen it lead to the wrong tool being used for the job.
A couple years later when these devs move on the business has a harder time maintaining the code they leave behind.
There are always drifters to be hired, which has some value.
Yes it is very much a double edged sword. The other risk associated with highly passionate Devs is that one day the work your business values no longer accommodates what tooling they want to work with, or they themselves change tack sporadically after discovering something new. I've had amazing JavaScript developers quit on me because they got bored of using react and wanted to pursue a role in Vue, for example.
But I'll take hiring (and the implied difficulty in finding) a dozen of those kind of Devs over drifters all the same.
The risk with this type of developer is they often prioritize their toolset and amazing code over the actual businesses needs. I’ve seen it lead to the wrong tool being used for the job.
A couple years later when these devs move on the business has a harder time maintaining the code they leave behind.
There are always drifters to be hired, which has some value.