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This might not be what you had in mind, but the web framework Django. It's been around for ages and doesn't change in dramatic ways. It's not perfect by any mea
by hkhanna 5y ago
This might not be what you had in mind, but the web framework Django. It's been around for ages and doesn't change in dramatic ways. It's not perfect by any means, but it just works and is reasonably easy to understand and extend if you spend the time to read through its code.
The documentation is good, but I find that it's a little overrated. There are lots of gaps, so spending the time reading through Django's code will pay dividends, especially when it comes to customizing it for your needs.
After years of churning through all sorts of Javascript frameworks, I know that I can build something in Django and only need to spend real maintenance time once every 2 years or so during an LTS release.
- xtracto 5y agoI'll then go with C . For a language designed more than 50 years ago, it has withstood the test of time pretty impressively. It's a breath of fresh air to write software in C to do some low level device development for someone who spends his life in high level web frameworks.
- skydhash 5y agoI have a game I built for a homework in university. After 5 years of react, I picked it up and try to run it on my MacBook. I just had to edit a few files and got it working again. C has this expressiveness in it where everything is exposed to the reader. No complicated abstractions, just data structures and code.
- danesparza 5y agoI love that you named a coding framework. I was not in this mindset when answering the question.
- cipher_system 5y agoI'll then go with SQL. It's been around forever and evolves slowly and stably. You (almost) never need any frameworks, imports, boilerplate or glue, everything that works just works. And according to Star Trek Discovery, it will still be around in 250 years. Sadly though, SQL injections will still be a thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7B_ZWQFsYI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7B_ZWQFsYI