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This is why I love opinionated frameworks, why I love hand-holding tutorials, why I love abstractions. I don’t like code. I don’t like writing it, I don’t like reading it, I don’t like thinking about it. A mechanic doesn’t love his crescent wrench, he loves working on engines. The wrench is just a tool. What I enjoy is the final product and seeing a project come together as time goes on. “The right tool for the job”…
> Django vs Rails vs a huge bundle of JS libraries cobbled together at random... for most programming work it doesn’t matter. It might not matter to you, but it sure matters for the end user. This sort of attitude is why blog pages weigh north of 20 Mb and load for minutes nowadays.
You read the absolute wrong conclusion from that statement. Hint: Django and Rails are not front end frameworks and you can definitely use them to serve 20mb front ends too.