From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 13:05:45 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [TUHS] Another "craft" discussion topic - mindless tool proliferation In-Reply-To: <201709191701.v8JH1vck032168@darkstar.fourwinds.com> References: <201709191701.v8JH1vck032168@darkstar.fourwinds.com> Message-ID: On Tue, 19 Sep 2017, Jon Steinhart wrote: > Another example is a more recent web-based project on which I was advising. > I'm a big fan of jQuery; it gets the job done. Someone said "Why are you > using that instead of angular?" I did a bit of research before answering. > Turns out that one of the main reasons given for angular over jQuery was > that "it's fresh". That was a new one for me. Still unclear why freshness > is an attribute that would trump stability. I see it all the time and call it "blinded by the leet". -uso.