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Comment by aminerman | Hacker News Reader

Anyone can choose the tech stack, patterns, or whatever that he likes. But developers enjoy being absolutists, and deem something they don't like as a MISTAKE, or would tell you that the way they think is the ONLY way to think.

You do your app the way you want depending on the Ux you want to provide, on the tech you enjoy implementing, on the patterns you like to follow.

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> Anyone can choose the tech stack, patterns, or whatever that he likes

Maybe for personal projects, but 99% of us have to use the tech stack, pattern or whatever of our employer that was decided on (presumedly by some consensus at some point in the past). Publicly pointing out the flaws in what might have made sense then but might not make sense now is a Good Thing so that those flaws might be taken into consideration in the next round of consensus building.

I don’t understand what sort of cave trolls think I get to decide for me. Even as a lead I am making decisions based on the situation on the ground and those are informed by what people are comfortable with and what I can help them get comfortable with. It’s a team activity.

But every conversation has someone spouting off like these are experiments in a Petri dish. Petri dish projects don’t matter. Haven’t for a long time.

Don't work for a company running a tech stack you don't like.

That's what interview processes are for. And if the consensus goes for a stack you don't like, let's say for example for doing and SPA, then maybe it's not a mistake as stated in the article. Unless you guys think that any engineer that makes choices different than yours is incompetent.

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