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0 pointsskeeter20206mo ago0 comments

>> Yeah, .NET is a truck and React is a bicycle

I'm not a car guy but I most certainly a bicycle lover, so I will jump on you and say you often need more than one type of bicycle. Joan commutes to work? she wants a city ebike. Dan rides at the bike park? He wants a DH bike. Randy ride centuries on the weekend on his TDF road bike and Sally rides with her kids on a mountain bike.

So yeah, we can pick one bike type and force everyone to ride it, and the results will suck & everyone hate it. Your job can be to continually force everyone to follow this policy or you can stop and we'll get a lot of variation. THis is how it happens.

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pixl976mo ago

Eh, no, you don't hire those employees. You're stretching this analogy in some odd ways.

SideburnsOfDoom6mo ago

Well, they clearly all know how to ride bikes, so you offer to hire them to deliver using company bikes as a day job. And let them ride whatever they want on weekends.

The "force everyone to ride it" on the weekend part is where I think the analogy has broken down irreparably. We're talking about cost of ownership of company equipment used during working hours for much more defined tasks. What flavour of bike you enjoy riding on weekends is not relevant.

Programming language are inherently flexible, especially those that aim to be "general purpose". Fine-grained distinction of road bike vs mountain bike apply more to the apps created than the coding tool.