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" I see this weird back-lash in modern development against having common, standard platforms. " I think it has always been that way. It comes down to personali
by thevagrant 3y ago
" I see this weird back-lash in modern development against having common, standard platforms. "
I think it has always been that way.
It comes down to personality types. Many devs I've met think that the implementation they wrote themselves is simpler and easier to understand vs learning a platform api or existing library.
They tend to shrug off when I point out security or other potential problems
- parasti 3y agoAt least in web development rolling your own is usually the pragmatic choice. It won't break opaquely upon update, you can fix it yourself, it only does what you need. Library and platform updates have a much higher chance of breaking something because of the large impact surface, feature updates being conflated with security updates, insufficient testing, and such breakages are much harder to resolve because they are a black box to you. Really nothing to do with personalities.
- klooney 3y agoIn fairness, there are also a lot of frankly bad platforms and all encompassing frameworks.