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As am I, since I use Rails every day. However the number of DHHs and Ezras in the world vs. the number of us regular ol' web developers is quite small. There's
by senorprogrammer 18y ago
As am I, since I use Rails every day. However the number of DHHs and Ezras in the world vs. the number of us regular ol' web developers is quite small. There's a reason the rest of us should take advantage of the labours of the few rather than attempting to duplicate them.
- run4yourlives 18y agoDHH, JKM, and AH were a "regular ol' developers" until after they built rails and django. They're smart cookies, and but so are many web devs. While I agree that we should benefit from their labours, if there are times when we are confronted with the problems they had, we should be as bold as they were.
- briancooley 18y agoAnyone who should be as bold wouldn't heed that advice anyway.
- senorprogrammer 18y agoCetainly, and if you're setting out to build a framework then by all means build a framework. Or if you're setting out to improve a library then by all means, improve the library. But if you're setting to build a web app chances are it's folly to build your own "framework" and ORM and libraries first (note for the absolutists in the crowd: that is purposely _not_ an absolute statement; we can all come up with suitably contrarian one-off edge cases).