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Pxtl on Dec 18, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stop Learning Frameworks

And, the corollary:

Any technology that forces you to constantly navigate its sharp edges and learn hyper-specific workflows to use it is worse-than-useless and should be kept far away from your tech stack.

I am offended when I pick up a library and find out I'm going to spend the next day or two learning how to use it, and the next weeks working around non-obvious surprises it presents me.

scarface74 on Dec 19, 2018 [–]

You’ve never programmed in C....

Pxtl on Dec 19, 2018 | [–]

I have. At least C provides benefits to its sharpness - low-level hardware access, speed, and the lessons of 40 years of history.

I'm more thinking about various libraries I've used that aim to "simplify" things and end up making them worse than not being used at all.

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