Re:Drupal's Golden Handcuffs
by at-fates-hands on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @10:39PM
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Okay here's my Drupal story. It starts out with me at a Drupal conference. First question I ask is this, "Is Drupal a framework or a CMS?" To which the guy running it said cheerfully, "Both!"
After building my personal site with Drupal, I realized the one thing which drove me nuts was the vast number of modules I wanted to use either had shitty documentation or none at all.
It was basically, "Install this and it works!" Which made me spend even more time either having figure out how this thing worked, or attempting to write my own.
To me, this is not a developer friendly framework. When I talk to my friends who are developers and they flat out tell you there's a STEEP learning curve with Drupal, they're not kidding.
I can honestly say I built a dealer locator from scratch faster than I did trying to figure out how do it in Drupal. Just an example of the stuff I'm talking about:
After building my personal site with Drupal, I realized the one thing which drove me nuts was the vast number of modules I wanted to use either had shitty documentation or none at all.
It was basically, "Install this and it works!" Which made me spend even more time either having figure out how this thing worked, or attempting to write my own.
To me, this is not a developer friendly framework. When I talk to my friends who are developers and they flat out tell you there's a STEEP learning curve with Drupal, they're not kidding.
I can honestly say I built a dealer locator from scratch faster than I did trying to figure out how do it in Drupal. Just an example of the stuff I'm talking about:
http://drupal.org/node/38401