> I don't understand why those who spend most of their time writing web apps / CRUD apps focus so much on the tools they use to do it. Because writing web apps

> I don't understand why those who spend most of their time writing web apps / CRUD apps focus so much on the tools they use to do it. Because writing web apps / CRUD apps is soul-destroying, boring, and always perceived by the client as easy (no matter how much business value they bring) so there's pressure to do them fast, as others have said. Any distraction is welcome, and any framework that makes the task less painful is welcome. Both of which foster this fairly pointless set of discussions :) 32 year old curmudgeon here, in the middle of a large web app project...