The catch I find with using fun new tools on side-projects is that you can confuse excitement in the build for excitement in the project. I can also execute far

The catch I find with using fun new tools on side-projects is that you can confuse excitement in the build for excitement in the project. I can also execute far, far quicker with my preferred toolset, which is a collection of more pragmatic approaches I've collected over the years. There's room for exploratory projects, but I think if you're taking the actual project seriously you should do it with stuff you're comfortable in.