Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Mark Carroll Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: Re: Best Technology to build a web app. Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 21:23:09 +0000 Organization: none Lines: 26 Message-ID: <874mcef2o2.fsf@ixod.org> References: <01598687-eaf5-49f1-968b-e8e36a0b24e3@googlegroups.com> <87fuvygp7r.fsf@ixod.org> <20160310114234.713@kylheku.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="1b3e5cba9e4d07a53741e6f3d1717925"; logging-data="14101"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1++kPWIt3y/vRO1B+NAco6Q" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Qn6E1PfnzyA3Fk1OeDJYdCJLzhM= sha1:yGugIrlkDWxGRObKXyYlKnq2wSw= Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:6331 On 10 Mar 2016, Kaz Kylheku wrote: > On 2016-03-10, Mark Carroll 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