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Hot take, but ime, a lot of developers who are hyper-luddites tend to not be good developers or developers who didn't/don't want to try to upskill. This doesn'
by alephnerd 2y ago
Hot take, but ime, a lot of developers who are hyper-luddites tend to not be good developers or developers who didn't/don't want to try to upskill.
This doesn't mean that you always need to use the newest and flashiest tool (eg. Bash+Awk preprocessing can still be faster than using multiple different packages), but you should still be aware and understand how to make those tradeoffs.
You choose your stack based on your problem statement, and as a business that requires taking both Engineering and Business considerations into account.
- jappgar 2y agoI think there are two poles that devs tend to cluster around. On the luddite end, you have a lot of developers who are uncreative and vastly prefer reading code to writing it. On the other end, you have rewriters who can ONLY read code they've written themselves. You actually need both types to have a good team.
- itsibitzi 2y agoI would agree and expand on this and say such hyper-luddites tend to make picking up new technology a self-fulfilling bad idea. Even if you can present a fantastic business case for something they don't want to learn new things so if you do introduce it they will refuse to learn and progress will suffer as a result.