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by JustSomeNobody 3988 days ago
I didn't read that in the article. Being a technologist means know when NOT to use a technology as much as knowing when to use it. There're way too many developers who read links from HN and try and push the javascript framework of the weak on everyone at their job without fully comprehending the consequences of their decision. That's not being a technologits, that's being stupid.
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> There're way too many developers who read links from HN and try and push the javascript framework of the weak on everyone at their job without fully comprehending the consequences of their decision.

One good question to ask yourself when evaluating a framework is this:

If the project/company dies out tomorrow, and we're tied to this thing, can we take it in-house and pick up maintenance?

If the answer to that is no, not even long enough to migrate to something else, then boy, you'd better be damn sure that the team that develops it isn't going to go away or lose interest. Hence my skepticism with many, many Javascript "framework of the week" projects. There's just far too many out there that have died out after a year or two for me to blithely accept whatever the new hotness is.

> and push the javascript framework of the weak

(emphasis added)

freudian typo, is there such a thing?
Haha, maybe...

That was bad. Normally I try not to have such typos, but it is Monday.

It was brilliant!