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Exactly. "Oh no! Too many people are publishing their code! Developers have too many excellent options (along with many awful ones)!" It's true that our commun

Exactly. "Oh no! Too many people are publishing their code! Developers have too many excellent options (along with many awful ones)!" It's true that our community could use a renewed focus around best practices, and it's true that the stack itself is way more complicated than it needs to be. In that sense, I don't disagree with the point of this article at all, but it's important to remember that when things grow organically they will tend to get messy, and the alternative (somehow structured growth, governing bodies, etc) is far worse.

coldtea 12y ago
>Exactly. "Oh no! Too many people are publishing their code! Developers have too many excellent options (along with many awful ones)!" I fail to see the "many excellent options". Awful ones are, on the other hand, abundant. And even those that are decent have the other issues the article mentions: they are short-lived, with developers soon moving to the next shiny thing etc.
tracker1 12y ago
Organic growth tends to have a lot of weeds, insects and other hazards. I've been loosely following a lot of projects for several years now... it's hard to even keep a broad awareness at this point. That doesn't even count the platform/systems tooling that I'd honestly rather not think about... Chef, Puppet, now Ansible... Hadoop, MongoDB, RethinkDB, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Redis, Couch, etc... Hapi, Express, Koa ... NGINX, HTTP2/SPDY, Varnish, etc... Cloud-VMs, Azure, Amazon, Rackspace, Joyent, Linode, Digital Ocean... OpenStack, Varnish, Docker ... It goes on, and on... there's too much to keep up with awareness of... let alone what needs to be dug into at this point. It's honestly a bit overwhelming. I just want to get back to whelmed... I'd really like to be doing more time coding, which right now, I'm spending more time on platform stuff... evaluating packages in npm/github isn't so bad.. much more than that, it gets interesting.

coldtea 12y ago

>Exactly. "Oh no! Too many people are publishing their code! Developers have too many excellent options (along with many awful ones)!" I fail to see the "many excellent options". Awful ones are, on the other hand, abundant. And even those that are decent have the other issues the article mentions: they are short-lived, with developers soon moving to the next shiny thing etc.

tracker1 12y ago

Organic growth tends to have a lot of weeds, insects and other hazards. I've been loosely following a lot of projects for several years now... it's hard to even keep a broad awareness at this point. That doesn't even count the platform/systems tooling that I'd honestly rather not think about... Chef, Puppet, now Ansible... Hadoop, MongoDB, RethinkDB, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Redis, Couch, etc... Hapi, Express, Koa ... NGINX, HTTP2/SPDY, Varnish, etc... Cloud-VMs, Azure, Amazon, Rackspace, Joyent, Linode, Digital Ocean... OpenStack, Varnish, Docker ... It goes on, and on... there's too much to keep up with awareness of... let alone what needs to be dug into at this point. It's honestly a bit overwhelming. I just want to get back to whelmed... I'd really like to be doing more time coding, which right now, I'm spending more time on platform stuff... evaluating packages in npm/github isn't so bad.. much more than that, it gets interesting.