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"Use Popular Tools", "Old Doesn't Mean Gold" and "Use The Right Tool" are all kind of contradictory. "Cool" and "popular" are usually correlated. "Old" might co
by jakelazaroff 7y ago
"Use Popular Tools", "Old Doesn't Mean Gold" and "Use The Right Tool" are all kind of contradictory. "Cool" and "popular" are usually correlated. "Old" might correlate inversely with "cool" but directly with the ease of finding plugins, Stack Overflow issues and blog posts.
IMO, the criteria to use when evaluating a tool are 1) cost of building it yourself, 2) how well you know the tool, 3) how big the community is, and 4) how well the tool fits the job.
- afarrell 7y ago> "Use Popular Tools", "Old Doesn't Mean Gold" and "Use The Right Tool" are all kind of contradictory. Yes, but that doesn't make them simultaneously good advice. The tension among these three is one of the trichotomies of technical leadership.
- belzebalex 7y agoExactly, it's a balance to find.