[xixixao]

The worst part about the comments under any "JS" submission is the amount of time I have to spend to weed through all the "there are too many tools" comments.

Brunch is older than Grunt and Gulp, how is your comment in any way relevant? If this was a post about the advantages of Java over Go would you complain about the amount of time you have to spend investigating various language platforms?

The world is changing rapidly around us, whether we like it or not.

[Semiapies]

Yes, the endless complaining that something new-to-the-poster exists is the most tedious aspect of HN. Nobody has time to look at anything new, but they have plenty of time to bitch about it at length.

If people said to themselves, "Nope, don't have time to read some docs," and went about their business without dropping coder angst-bombs, there might actually be useful comments to read that would help someone decide whether looking into Brunch or whatever was worth the time.

[pluma]

I'd also like to point out that even as a Java or C++ programmer you can easily fall behind. I've had the pleasure of working with a "dark matter" Java programmer who had been doing practically the same thing for ten years. He was contemplating reading into some "new technologies" -- none of which was any younger than five years and even so there was no viable upgrade path from where he was.

[jorblume]

Go and Java are two entirely different languages so I'm not sure what that comparison was about.

Furthermore, the age of the tool has nothing to do with the fact that there are literally 10 tools that do almost the same thing. But are syntactically and dependency different. It's a huge pain when someone new is hired or you leave for somewhere else. Too many cooks in the kitchen type of thing.