Software developers care too much about tools

Lately I see perilous situation in software development area. There are plenty of good devs so much bounded to tools. By tools, I mean mostly frameworks. I would like to elaborate a bit about that, but those are my personal opinions and they aren’t here to offend anyone.

First of all, we all need to admit, that quality of modern MVC framework raised a lot, comparing with state of things few years ago. Speaking about PHP – at the time, when I attracted my attention to this language, there were pure wilderness. We did not have any strong framework (unlike Ruby On Rails, which were sine qua non choice for Ruby web development). That caused multiple projects development, some of them are dead now (or should be), some hasn’t got good market adaptation and some of them are industry leaders at the moment (Symfony and Zend).

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