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Replace Rails with Django and this comment seems to hold true for many in the Django community. Boring can be good.

by luxurytent 6y ago

sodapopcan 6y ago
Boring tech is great if your primary concern is writing business logic. Ideally, this should always be true, but of course the reality is that people's jobs often have them working on products they don't really care for. And of course, it's easy to get distracted by tech anyway. Experience also comes into play when it comes to loving "boring" tech—it took my around a decade before I was sufficiently jaded that almost all I want to do is write actual business logic. I still love refactoring, though :)
- joelbluminator 6y ago
  > it took my around a decade before I was sufficiently jaded that almost all I want to do is write actual business logic It's comforting to see I'm not alone. I just wanna ship clean code and contribute value to the business, while all the young bucks in my team are more interested in rewriting our REST apis in Graphql (with all kinds of rationalizations). Looks like the younger you are the more eager you are to explore new tech and the older you are the more keen you are in just delivering value in a boring old stack.
  - marsdepinski 6y ago
    +1. Boring tech just works and provides familiar tools you can build on.
  - sodapopcan 6y ago
    Ha, ya, my work recently mandated moving everything to graphql. My team started a greenfield project so there was no need to convert anything, though the learning curve was high with apollo. Graphql is nice, but as the only consumers of our API, I don't see it as a win over REST. At this point, though, we're proficient enough that it doesn't get in our way.
    - joelbluminator 6y ago
      > but as the only consumers of our API, I don't see it as a win over REST. Same story here. Our company is the only API user, why go through all that trouble? Donno.

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Replace Rails with Django and this comment seems to hold true for many in the Django community. Boring can be good.

by luxurytent 6y ago

Replace Rails with Django and this comment seems to hold true for many in the Django community. Boring can be good.

sodapopcan 6y ago
Boring tech is great if your primary concern is writing business logic. Ideally, this should always be true, but of course the reality is that people's jobs often have them working on products they don't really care for. And of course, it's easy to get distracted by tech anyway. Experience also comes into play when it comes to loving "boring" tech—it took my around a decade before I was sufficiently jaded that almost all I want to do is write actual business logic. I still love refactoring, though :)
- joelbluminator 6y ago
  > it took my around a decade before I was sufficiently jaded that almost all I want to do is write actual business logic It's comforting to see I'm not alone. I just wanna ship clean code and contribute value to the business, while all the young bucks in my team are more interested in rewriting our REST apis in Graphql (with all kinds of rationalizations). Looks like the younger you are the more eager you are to explore new tech and the older you are the more keen you are in just delivering value in a boring old stack.
  - marsdepinski 6y ago
    +1. Boring tech just works and provides familiar tools you can build on.
  - sodapopcan 6y ago
    Ha, ya, my work recently mandated moving everything to graphql. My team started a greenfield project so there was no need to convert anything, though the learning curve was high with apollo. Graphql is nice, but as the only consumers of our API, I don't see it as a win over REST. At this point, though, we're proficient enough that it doesn't get in our way.
    - joelbluminator 6y ago
      > but as the only consumers of our API, I don't see it as a win over REST. Same story here. Our company is the only API user, why go through all that trouble? Donno.