[coppolaemilio]

The trending frameworks might be because we usually get tired of working with the same technology over and over again. The moment of learning something new is always exciting and once it wears out I guess that starting with "the new thing" recreates that feeling momentarily so we start rationalizing about it. There is also in my opinion the big problem of being able to do the same thing with many different tools, it always generates this kind of conflicts of which one is better, but at the end of the day, any tool can be "the best one" depending on the team.

[collyw]

I find the opposite. I would far rather develop in a language / framework that I am familiar with, knowing that I will be making the correct decisions.

I doubt it is only me, but every first attempt with a new language is a fairly crappy effort, as its a learning experience. I prefer to be solving the problem at hand rather than having to google something about the framework every half hour.