Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up ...
by kristopolous on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @03:20AM
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Most of the higher level code like that is written by incompetent people who make amateur hour mistakes and only release overengineered under documented slow broken code that is never supported and gets deprecated in a week.
I'm constantly shocked and amazed at the beginner mistakes riddled throughout these hip cool kid frameworks. And the dependencies of that code, and their dependencies, and the build system, and the management of the build system. It's a 5,000 hour a week job fixing all that and someone else will just go in and break it again.
So no, don't tell me to stop my life and fix everyone's mistakes. This is why there's 10 person teams to build an ecommerce site these days. This used to be a weekend project before all these slick stylish tools took up everyone's time.
Most people are incompetent and the more complexity you have, the greater your chances of getting crap code tearing your system apart
Why would I use something as a core piece of infrastructure written by people I'd never even consider hiring in a million years?
All too often you're standing on the shoulders of people tripping over their own shoelaces.
I'm constantly shocked and amazed at the beginner mistakes riddled throughout these hip cool kid frameworks. And the dependencies of that code, and their dependencies, and the build system, and the management of the build system. It's a 5,000 hour a week job fixing all that and someone else will just go in and break it again.
So no, don't tell me to stop my life and fix everyone's mistakes. This is why there's 10 person teams to build an ecommerce site these days. This used to be a weekend project before all these slick stylish tools took up everyone's time.
Most people are incompetent and the more complexity you have, the greater your chances of getting crap code tearing your system apart
Why would I use something as a core piece of infrastructure written by people I'd never even consider hiring in a million years?
All too often you're standing on the shoulders of people tripping over their own shoelaces.
No thank you.