"...The entire music distribution world had changed, and we were still working on the same goddamn rewrite. I said fuckit, and we abandoned the Rails rewrite."
It made a bunch of people mad, because (I think) they were reading "Rails couldn't X, and Rails couldn't Y, and Rails couldn't Z, but PHP could totally Y Z and Y, so I used PHP and it was a big success".
But having been in this situation, I think what he was saying was "I couldn't X, and I couldn't Y, and I couldn't Z, so I said fuckit and did it the way I know how..."
It has nothing to do with rails or PHP, or node, django, react. Programmers who have never finally said "fuckit" and abandoned "the true and right way" are programmers who haven't released.
Not saying you should stick with ancient technology, but "good enough" is an inevitable ingredient in any software that ends up being useful to someone.
https://sivers.org/rails2php
"...The entire music distribution world had changed, and we were still working on the same goddamn rewrite. I said fuckit, and we abandoned the Rails rewrite."
It made a bunch of people mad, because (I think) they were reading "Rails couldn't X, and Rails couldn't Y, and Rails couldn't Z, but PHP could totally Y Z and Y, so I used PHP and it was a big success".
But having been in this situation, I think what he was saying was "I couldn't X, and I couldn't Y, and I couldn't Z, so I said fuckit and did it the way I know how..."
It has nothing to do with rails or PHP, or node, django, react. Programmers who have never finally said "fuckit" and abandoned "the true and right way" are programmers who haven't released.
Not saying you should stick with ancient technology, but "good enough" is an inevitable ingredient in any software that ends up being useful to someone.