> This is anti-intellectualism: "architecture is hard, so let the smart people at Google handle it." No, it's "I want to get my job done, get paid and go home"

> This is anti-intellectualism: "architecture is hard, so let the smart people at Google handle it." No, it's "I want to get my job done, get paid and go home". Believe me, I am anything but anti-intellectual! I love thinking about software and how to make things better. I studied Computer Science and love applying theory to practice. But 90% of the time, the correct answer is "use third party libraries or frameworks", not "roll my own". In the current project I'm working on, I made the decision to use ReactJS instead of building our own frontend library from scratch. The project is almost ready to ship and has been very successful. New people to the project are saying "React was the right choice." If I had tried to build our own frontend architecture from scratch we'd never have hit our deadlines.