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Well, this all depends on:

* Whether you're learning in your spare time outside of your work and other commitments

* Whether you're learning something radically different to anything you've used before to teach you a totally new way to think about solving problems

* Whether you want to reach the level of "yeah, I've used it" or "go ahead, technical interviewer, try to stump me, your large production codebase won't contain anything I haven't seen before"



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