Re: Best Technology to build a web app.

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Subject	Re: Best Technology to build a web app.
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On 10 Mar 2016, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

> On 2016-03-10, Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org> wrote:
(snip)
>> True, but plenty is built on top of them like libraries such as
>> Backbone, jQuery and React, all the way up to whole languages like
>> ClojureScript. It takes some effort to keep up with what's worth using
>> for new non-trivial projects.
>
> If you're "keeping up with what is worth using", that means you're
> constantly throwing away what you were temporarily duped into
> believing was worth using.

There's a difference between starting new projects from scratch and
further developing existing ones.

> When you have something worth using, you stop "keeping up", and you
> actually ... use it.

Yes: I've worked on plenty of projects where they were using what they
learned fifteen years ago and I was painfully aware of how much easier
and more reliable it would be if they could have broadened their
horizons. Even if you have a hammer that doesn't mean that everything is
a nail.

-- Mark

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Best Technology to build a web app. moltediego@gmail.com - 2016-03-10 07:57 -0800
  Re: Best Technology to build a web app. Randy Howard <rhoward.mx@EverybodyUsesIt.com> - 2016-03-10 11:06 -0600
    Re: Best Technology to build a web app. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-03-10 17:47 +0000
      Re: Best Technology to build a web app. Kaz Kylheku <330-706-9395@kylheku.com> - 2016-03-10 19:54 +0000
        Re: Best Technology to build a web app. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-03-10 21:52 +0000
      Re: Best Technology to build a web app. Randy Howard <rhoward.mx@EverybodyUsesIt.com> - 2016-03-11 12:05 -0600
        Re: Best Technology to build a web app. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-03-11 19:33 +0000
          Re: Best Technology to build a web app. Randy Howard <rhoward.mx@EverybodyUsesIt.com> - 2016-03-11 14:21 -0600
          Re: Best Technology to build a web app. Kaz Kylheku <330-706-9395@kylheku.com> - 2016-03-12 00:52 +0000
  Re: Best Technology to build a web app. fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-03-10 10:02 -0800
    Re: Best Technology to build a web app. Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2016-03-10 18:30 +0000
      Re: Best Technology to build a web app. fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-03-10 11:41 -0800
      Re: Best Technology to build a web app. Kaz Kylheku <330-706-9395@kylheku.com> - 2016-03-10 19:46 +0000
        Re: Best Technology to build a web app. Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2016-03-10 21:23 +0000
  Re: Best Technology to build a web app. "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2016-03-10 21:29 +0100
  Re: Best Technology to build a web app. "cwf" <cwf101@wiosna.pl> - 2016-03-11 17:27 -0500

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