Agreement; the more I code the more I want to find "quick iteration" solutions and minimize deliberate engineering of complexity.
I know a few coders who have spun their wheels for a decade or possibly longer because they're still idealizing wheel reinvention. The reinvention is the easy part - after all, someone already did it, so you're just learning what they did, "the hard way." What's hard is learning to leverage the ecosystem as much as possible while bringing in original ideas; as in entrepreneurship, there are no tutorials for that.
yep, I just found myself saying something like this the other day when talking with another engineer about the issues at the current company I work for. Its my belief that modern web application development is primarily about leveraging existing frameworks and libraries to deliver the results, failure to take advantage of an existing resource can cause the project to be much more complex to maintain and waste tons of efforts programming aspects of the project that aren't concentrating on the actual domain problem that is trying to be solved.
I know a few coders who have spun their wheels for a decade or possibly longer because they're still idealizing wheel reinvention. The reinvention is the easy part - after all, someone already did it, so you're just learning what they did, "the hard way." What's hard is learning to leverage the ecosystem as much as possible while bringing in original ideas; as in entrepreneurship, there are no tutorials for that.