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That's always a problem with comparison charts when used to survey they field. The flip side is if they compare a bunch of features you don't care about at all
by kbenson 8y ago
That's always a problem with comparison charts when used to survey they field. The flip side is if they compare a bunch of features you don't care about at all, there's a bunch of red on some which makes no difference to you in real life, but now you either need to know what each esoteric feature means so you can ignore it, or just accept that the one with more red is probably worse and avoid it, even if overall it's a better fit for your needs. The extreme ends of this are simple charts where someone just tells you "good" or "bad" on one end, or pointlessly complex ones where someone adds bullshit fields like "experienced developers" or something like it.
I'm not sure what the solution is, besides much more interactive and thorough presentation of features in a way that allows classification of how advanced they are or likely you are to need them, but that's a lot of work. Until then, a comparison like this will always suffer from rarely matching exactly what the reader is looking for. They do work well as quick references though.
- lvh 8y agoI'm concerned that they don't work well at all: a number of highly important properties are missing and a number of the criteria have been challenged; see rest of thread.