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Unfortunately, developers often write code in a framework they don't know well so they end up fighting the framework instead of using the niceties it provides. The end result being that the surface area of things that can go wrong actually increases.

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True. But I also find that a lot of frameworks are narrowly optimized for solving specific problems, at the expense of generality, and those problems often aren’t the ones I have.

Supposedly declarative approaches especially are my pet peeve. “Tell it what you want done, not how you want it done” is nice sounding but generally disappointing when I soon need it to do something not envisioned by its creator yet solved in a line or two of general purpose/imperative code.

Most companies unfortunately don't let developers adequately explore solutions or problem spaces before committing to them either. The ones that dominate do, but that's also because they often have the resources to build it from the ground up anyway.

The average mid-sized business seems to have internalized that code is always a liability, but they respond by cutting short discovery and get their just deserts.

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