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I’ll just share a recent anecdote from work. A developer asked someone ‘What are the pros/cons of using _____ library?’, here was the answer — ‘This is what eve
by runawaybottle 6y ago
I’ll just share a recent anecdote from work. A developer asked someone ‘What are the pros/cons of using _____ library?’, here was the answer — ‘This is what everyone is using right now’.
There must be a limit to this nonsense. So we’re just going to drop this into our stack because that’s what everyone else is doing?
- phlakaton 6y agoIt's the "beating the averages" debate all over again. You get certain economies of scale doing what everyone else is doing, and face less political friction getting it adopted. But it may not be the absolute best solution for what you need, and over time, it may hold you back. It's why we're not all writing our stuff in Lisp. ;-)