[HN Gopher] In praise of opinionated frameworks
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       In praise of opinionated frameworks
        
       Author : PuddleOfSausage
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2022-03-13 12:06 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | bragr wrote:
       | Opinionated frameworks are great as long as you fit the designed
       | use case, their documented and undocumented limits, and the
       | pricing model is compatible with your business model. If you fit
       | into those use cases, yeah go for it. However, many don't and
       | find themselves reaching for the more flexible solutions, where
       | yes you pay a complexity penalty, but you can still access the
       | economies of scale of the community and ecosystem. And since so
       | many people across so many domains find themselves in this
       | situation, the flexible solutions get popular.
       | 
       | There are also skillset and people management things to consider.
       | As an individual contributor, I want to learn the skills with the
       | broadest possible applicability in order to ensure ensure my long
       | term career opportunities. Anyone that has been around the tech
       | block a few times has seen the winds change a few times and
       | nobody wants to be in the situation of having of resume with none
       | of the popular buzzwords. This is one big factor why people
       | gravitate towards more broadly applicable solutions and away from
       | more niche opiniated frameworks that have potentially a smaller
       | applicability.
       | 
       | The the flip side of that is that I, as a manager, know that any
       | core technology we choose means something I'm constantly going to
       | have to recruit for or invest hugely in training in for so
       | picking the one with the biggest talent pool is going to very
       | tempting. Even if people don't use it the same way we do, I'll at
       | least be able to ask basic and essential knowledge questions in
       | interviews.
        
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