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This is just the problem our industry has. Hammer is popular, everyone learns hammer. Now all problems are solved with a hammer.
by PretzelFisch 8y ago
This is just the problem our industry has. Hammer is popular, everyone learns hammer. Now all problems are solved with a hammer.
- jaredklewis 8y agoI think there is always going to be a certain tension between two conflicting desires: A) The desire to use the right tool for the right job B) The desire to have fewer, more versatile tools It's understandable that people don't want to learn dozens of different languages, frameworks, and libraries. There is a real cost to gaining knowledge and experience with all those tools, and a real benefit to knowing a single tool really well. On the other hand I often find more tailored tools can be much more powerful for their suited tasks. But then again it's also true that the scope of projects is always shifting, so sometimes you can outgrow the specific use case of a tool. Anyway, I would say it isn't clear (to me at least) that our industry has a "problem."