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by uranusjr 2067 days ago
There’s a constantly swinging pendulum between “one tool to rule it all” and “bring your own tool.” Newcomers to an ecosystem get tired learning all the accumulated toolchain and want to build a thing to solve every problem. But it is always easier to build a tool that does only one thing, and gradually people replace each part of that one tool with better standalone tools, the ecosystem disintegrates into pieces. The cycle goes on. There’s no right or wrong, only nature.