[zanny]

> friends and coworkers who are too young to remember the atrocities of old

I'm 21. If I'm working on a project, I'll use whatever the guy paying for it wants. If I get a choice, I'll use what I'm most experienced in.

There is no magical solution at the end of the rainbow. The only real important consideration is that 99.9999% of code you will write has already been written and is probably open source somewhere. A lot of that ends up in a library. And a lot of that is still maintained to this day. So rather than look for a framework to reinvent the wheel in as quickly as possible, relearning the entire stack every time (or at least the framework, which I find takes the longest just because it constitutes huge amounts of library functionality and dictates the workflow) is almost always a waste of effort.

In my defense, I have experienced the "reinventing of the wheel" many times that didn't work or caused a lot of unneeded growing pains, starting probably with Netscape 6, but more recent examples are Gnome3, KDE4, a lot of switching between wxwidgets, gtk, qt, and efl over the years, and the duplications of work associated with them, even if I am young in the profession.

[gedrap]

Oh come on, don't get that defensive! There certainly was some humor in the parent post's style.