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Sometimes it's better to be inflexible. What's better, a development team full of developers who are flexible enough to use a crappy technology, or inflexible
by cool-RR 15y ago
Sometimes it's better to be inflexible.
What's better, a development team full of developers who are flexible enough to use a crappy technology, or inflexible enough to move the product to a superior technology? It depends on moving costs and the difference between technologies, but in some cases I think that inflexibility is better.
- mibbit 15y agoA good developer can work with crappy tools and make great things.
- cool-RR 15y agoSure. But a good developer can work much freaking better with good tools.
- burgerbrain 15y agoWhy should they have to? Why would anyone expect them to do so? The job market is pretty great for good developers right now.
- mibbit 15y agoAnd there's a hell of a lot of bad developers out there.
- burgerbrain 15y agoAnd you explicitly called out good developers. "A good developer can work with crappy tools and make great things." So what exactly is your point here?
- mentat 15y agoThe better development team is the one that gets stuff done. That almost always means flexibility.