Comment by CER10TY
21 days ago
It swings both ways though. I've seen plenty of older engineers dismiss the "new guys" effort and claim that everything had to be custom written, because there's no way a common framework like Django could cover their use case. The same type of engineer has never once worked with a common framework though, so they don't know what's included nowadays.
Turns out it's a lot easier to build on top of a common framework than do everything from scratch.
Sure I had an older dev do bit masking for a list of 3 options in javascript because he was used to old terminals.
Its something different coming in and changing things here and there but rewriting the hole thing on a weekend is something different.
I was very impressed with vBulletin’s use of bitmasking for permissions (of which there were many possible combinations) when I first encountered it.
Would love an excuse to use it, but one has not come up in like 15 years since, hah.