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I like the choice. I love to see people using lisps but some of the path to that choice makes me cringe. Like this: I probably could have written a ‘bare-bon

I like the choice. I love to see people using lisps but some of the path to that choice makes me cringe. Like this: I probably could have written a ‘bare-bones’ implementation of the site’s back-end in Rails in a week instead of two weeks, but I would rather ‘waste’ that one week up front to have more flexibility later. YAGNI. Speed kills (the competition).

gruseom 17y ago
It was the previous sentence that resonated with me: I’m a bit wary of using ‘heavy weight’ frameworks like Rails (or Django) on large custom projects. In my experience they make the first 90% of what I’m trying to do be really easy – but then make the last 10% a living hell since I need to modify something the framework never intended me to control. That is a very true statement, in my experience. It's also an elusive insight, because once you commit to a framework you begin to interpret your problem, the universe, and everything in terms of the framework's conceptual space.