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>At some point you have to ask yourself how much of this is good engineering (does it help the end user?) and how much it's just having fun and impressing fello
by JustSomeNobody 10y ago
>At some point you have to ask yourself how much of this is good engineering (does it help the end user?) and how much it's just having fun and impressing fellow engineers.
Javascript (and most Enterprise) developers will tell you it's the former. Nearly every other developer will tell you it's the latter.
- mrweasel 10y agoEnterprise Java developers are used confusing and magical build tools, so a few tools for JavaScript isn't going to strike them as being weird or complex.
- watwut 10y agoIt is just a question of willingness to learn.
- thekingofh 10y agoI don't think I agree. Willingness to learn vs willingness to expend mental capacity are different. Sometimes the mental capacity to learn the abstraction equals what it would take to just deal with the complexity that the abstraction is attempting to hide.