Exactly ;( And I feel like the more ambitious you are (for yourself and your company), the more you suffer from this problem.

Yep. Probably best to focus on the end user, who usually doesn't care about your underlying tech. WordPress, Facebook, Craigslist, all built with tech that isn't the latest and greatest, yet still successful.

I'm in my second year of Swift already and doing just fine...

5 years here, son. Step aside.

I already wrote a compiler for Swift.

I can't compete against this..

I'm out.

recruiter: So, 1 year of experience?

"All of them"

Hat tip to the commentors on: https://gist.github.com/dhh/1285068