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Oh yeah, SOMEONE has to be be first. It just doesn't have to be YOU!

If you want to be successful in your career, when you are put in charge of a big new project, on a tight timeline, high management visibility, etc.. you dig into your existing tried & true toolkit to get the job done. There's so many other variables, why needlessly add more risk no one asked for?

But yes, I'm glad there are maniacs out there.. I just don't want to work with them.

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Ideally, framework code originates from some existing, working product, from which it was factored out because it happened to be useful.

Contrast this with frameworks that are created for the framework's own sake, hoping to attract its first application developers.

Granted, I remember symfony was very good, even in versions 1.x. It truly made working with PHP not suck as much as it did back in the day. I don't remember if there was ever a product of which it was born.

> you dig into your existing tried & true toolkit to get the job done

Haha. Yes. But when the c-suite is made up of top level management pushed out of the s&p 500, they always assume it’s their tried and true toolkit from another company. Believe me, it’s never the hammer the current engineering staff is holding. I’m slow clapping so hard for the business school graduates right now…

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