Agree. In the context of software development, you might choose different tools (programming language especially) if your goal is rapid application development

Agree. In the context of software development, you might choose different tools (programming language especially) if your goal is rapid application development rather than general high quality and long-term maintainability. You can't easily go back and change those decisions. This is one of the perennial software development questions: to what extent can you improve an existing solution with a flawed or now-inappropriate architecture or implementation? This topic turned up a couple of months ago. [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40623263 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40623263