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Let me tell you a story. When I do frontend nowadays, I mostly develop with angular js. People like to complain about angular and having to know so many libraries, and frameworks, when the past was simple. But what is simple, really? Let's look at some past experiences: 1. At a very first gig, when I was doing my very little first steps in this software thing, I had to build a website prototype. Pure static html pages inside a folder, that were linked to each other, didn't need to deploy, it was just a demo. It didn't use CSS. It didn't use a template engine. Really simple. But, every change was a PITA, because the website had a header, so every change, meant you had to open the file, and rewrite the whole header... in all files, manually! 2. In another moment of my past, I had to do some changes in an app was built with JQuery. JQuery is a library, but it's pretty simple. Select dom elements, and apply changes and hook events up. Simple. Only, following and understanding the flow of the app was hard as hell. Each page had a lot of code and it wasn't obvious at all what was happening. Complex transformations of the dom were daunting. Small changes would break in intractable ways. 3. PL/SQL Stored procedures + tables. Pure SQL + structured programming is simpler than objects, and way simpler than using ORMS. Of course we had no tests, so less stuff to look at. I'm not even going to describe the downsides because you all people surely know that. My point is, let's always look at the other side of things, and really weight at all the tradeoffs. I get what you mean but when I read a line like: > I want to get back to focusing on building logical models that fit the domain, solving problems, and simulating things. I feel that it's really a little _naive_. I mean, of course you focus on that kind of things. You need to work on backend, solving some kind of problems. But in some other problems, like for example, visual interfaces, you better be reusing shit. |
I'm not entirely against code reuse, sure, reuse bits like visual interface if they fit, but the idea that it can solve everything by just sticking existing bits together is a false lead. It takes much longer than expected and it makes an unmaintainable mess.