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i'm trying to think of the coding equivalent of wooden wrenches? Let's say that's an app written entirely with VBA. If I perceive that it solves my problems, th
by chadash 3y ago
i'm trying to think of the coding equivalent of wooden wrenches? Let's say that's an app written entirely with VBA. If I perceive that it solves my problems, then for most use cases, i'd be fine with it. I guess if it's running my bank account or it's a platform for deploying my code, maybe i'd care somewhat, but in 99% of cases, i wouldn't.
But the reality is that most code is written in a language that's good enough. It's a metal wrench that might be showing some rust. Do I think that PHP is a good language to start a project with today? Of course not. Do I care if you wrote your site 15 years ago and it still runs on PHP? Not really.
- kraftman 3y agomaybe a better anology would be using the wrong tool to get something done. like you could use a high quality hammer to hammer a high quality screw into two pieces of wood, and it would probably hold them together, but you shouldn't. you could build an entire SPA in pure JavaScript...