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>You're right, customers don't care about what tool was used to build something, but they care that you can do your job well and good tools help you do that. T
by EpicEng 10y ago
>You're right, customers don't care about what tool was used to build something, but they care that you can do your job well and good tools help you do that.
True, but I do my homework too. My code needs to be maintainable for the next guy. We can't invest inordinate amounts of time on V2 where it isn't necessary. I don't want unrelated parts of the program breaking because I fix a bug. The next set of features should be easy to implement from an architectural perspective. All of this is important to the customer and my business.
I care about my craft, but there's a line at which I stop investing my time in debating the toolset. If I'm spending ~10 hours / week writing blog and forum posts about why everyone should use X framework instead of Y I'm seriously wasting my time.
- lmm 10y ago> I care about my craft, but there's a line at which I stop investing my time in debating the toolset. If I'm spending ~10 hours / week writing blog and forum posts about why everyone should use X framework instead of Y I'm seriously wasting my time. Sure, but that line is in a different place depending on how important the tools are. If you're doing a project where the functionality is 40% custom code and 60% tooling, that will naturally give you a very different attitude to a project where the functionality is 1% custom code and 99% tooling.