Comment by vineyardmike
6 years ago
I see how you can find it annoying, but I have a friend that needs this advice (or a slap?).
He spends his energy lamenting over the "right" tools, to the point that he considers it a moral decision and part of his identity. He has trouble keeping work, because he's always looking for a company that uses the right tools instead of building the right thing. I'm sick of him lamenting "I could never work at [x] because they use java, and I never wanna see another NPE".
I personally constantly restart side projects, with different languages, or tools, or whatever because I read something about why {language, tool, whatever} is better than {what I was using}, so sometimes, it nice to remember that if its not a learning process.. it might just not matter :)
I've seen so many people fall into that trap. That's a really good description. It's kind of like a Starving Artist mentality/syndrome.