Hi Joshua, On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 09:47:06AM -0500, Joshua Welker wrote: > Thank you all for the responses. I hope my original email did not come off > as too abrasive.
No worries, I find it a fair depiction, and I share your Drupal pain. > The issue for me is that I am having a hard time figuring out what exactly > is the use case for Drupal. Do you want a dead-simple website? Use > Wordpress. Do you want to add some complex custom apps? Use a framework. Do > you want the worst of both worlds? Use Drupal. Right. May I quote you on this? I prefer static site generators such as Jekyll for dead-simple websites and blogs. > If I get hit by a bus, not only will someone have > to relearn Drupal and all its modules, but they will also have to wade > through my spaghetti-code efforts at patching functionality into Drupal. After I decided to leave a project where I had developed a Drupal intranet site, my successor scrapped it and started from scratch using Owncloud. And I do not blame him. I would have preferred using something other than Drupal, too, but was not allowed to at the time. (In case you wonder how Drupal and Owncloud can fit the same purpose: The goal was to develop a Virtual Research Environment, and nobody knows for sure what this is supposed to be, so there is room for interpretation.) > Right now, my framework choices are narrowed down to Ruby on Rails, Laravel > (PHP), Django (Python), and Flask (Python). For anyone who has used these, > do you have any insight into how maintainable your projects are and how > easily they are managed/inherited by others? In my new role, I inherited some Flask applications, and I find maintaining, debugging and extending them pure joy. If you have to use Perl instead of Python, use Dancer instead. I also tried Django, but it I feel it forces me into a corset that is a odd re-interpretation (or misunderstanding) of the MVC model. Cheers, Christian -- Christian Pietsch http://purl.org/net/pietsch
