In my experience, it means two seemingly opposite things that unify to create bad software. On the one hand, it's an extreme conservatism and fear of attempting new things. Don't try a new language, just keep using PHP. Don't install the new PHP version with better features, it could be risky. Don't use automated library management and deployment, we don't understand it. Don't use git, it sounds scary.
On the other hand, this same attitude of underconfidence and low ambition drives the adoption of dubious tooling. We cannot possibly be smart enough to write our own application, so use this slow and confusing web framework. Google and Facebook use these heavy Javascript tools, so we'd better do that, too, on every single project. Who are we to defy the "experts" in our field? At least, that's been my experience in 10 years of web development. It's perfectly fine to make mistakes, but I can't stomach the repetition. Enough of my complaining, though. Since we're bikeshedding here, I think we'd benefit from having a web toolkit on par with Clojure's Luminus. We only need a few more packages, a website documenting their interoperation, and a project skeleton to create the same sort of experience with the benefit of better error messages. I've already built one of the easy pieces (dotenv), and I'm working on more more of them. Some of the things I'd like to include, like server diagnostics, are a little over my head at the moment. I intend to keep checking off the boxes, though, and have a production-ready "framework" available sometime. On Fri, Oct 13, 2017, at 08:25 AM, David Storrs wrote: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 2:27 AM, Eric Griffis <ded...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 9:31 AM David Storrs <david.sto...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > > > Web dev culture is a bigger issue. > > > > Eric > > How so? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
