When I was doing databases, I formulated this joke-theorem of modern computing: Whatever reasonable and widespread database/language you use to model your appli

When I was doing databases, I formulated this joke-theorem of modern computing: Whatever reasonable and widespread database/language you use to model your application, if you do things sensibly, it will work well. A corollary is that: 1. It's a lot more about taste and less about technology we may believe. 2. Good programmers can bend a non perfect tool to work well for a given use case, bad programmers will mess everything even with perfect tools, so in general it is better to spend time becoming better programmers than spend time learning all the new cool tools. This idea, if true (and I believe it is) tells us how lucky we are compared than the past programmers. Advanced databases and languages are so advanced that they can do almost everything, even if they are not good at doing everything. And hardware and RAM is so generous today, that will mask a lot of potential issues unless you are at a big scale.