It's fascinating to read Giles Bowkett on Rails, its bloat, its falling out of fashion.
Fascinating mainly because it so clearly highlights that no-one is immune from this life-cycle that goes :
Fascinating mainly because it so clearly highlights that no-one is immune from this life-cycle that goes :
- new, simpler and easier than anything else
- hot-new thing that everyone loves
- adding more fluff to deal with more edge-cases
- build-up of technical debt
- re-writes to try to make more general, more principled, but requiring more configuration
- old and bloated.
Certainly Python isn't immune. We've been through this cycle with Zope, Plone ... feels like Django has too. Java went through it several times. The node/js/coffeescript frameworks will go through it too.
DOS/Windows did it. I guess the Macintosh OS has, though Apple have been more willing to kill and reboot its operating systems with the moves to OSX (BSD) and then iOS.
No comments:
Post a Comment