I take this really just to mean "everyone has faults".
People often idealize heroes and think of them as beyond human. If you do that and met your hero then your illusion will often be shattered. But the problem is just that you were putting them on an unreasonable pedestal.
Of course some people are frauds and some people have no idea what they are doing but manage to make people think they do. But I didn't read this as being one of those situations. Just someone they saw as beyond human being only human.
Like internal tools, consumer facing tools, content site, social site, etc. Is it an MVP? Rebuilding an old system? Is this a build it, ship it and move on? Or build, enhance and maintain for foreseeable future? What's required lifetime of it? What's the desired lifetime?
As well as resources. You want to use different setups if you are a single person compared to a team of 15.
Generally speaking the smaller the team the simpler the architecture needs to be. And the larger, the more isolation you want between pieces.
Personally I currently like Rails and React best. Both are fairly mature frameworks and work well together. Not to say there aren't better alternatives just those are the two that have worked best for me. There's so many good options that no one knows them all well enough to make a fair comparison.
I think Rust is very promising as a much faster alternative to Ruby and expect to switch over to it sometime in the next decade. But I don't feel the web frameworks for it are mature enough yet that I can justify a switch to it to my employer.
I've been working as a full stack web developer for the last 15 years during this transformation and this couldn't be further from the truth.
No full stack developer feels they aren't a real developer. But I think more than anything the full stack's have been the drive of a lot of this complications because all these complications make everything way easier for us.
Web development today is easy (compared to 15 years ago) once you know this toolchain. And for professionals, tools that take a long time to learn but increase productivity tremendously are much better than tools that are easy to learn but slow to use.
Of course we'll figure out how to simplify this toolchain over time. But things have been improving across the board for professionals.
It is unfortunate that the barrier to entry seems to be raising even higher. But a trade-off we seem to be fine making.
Source maps help a ton with this. Have never had an issue figuring out where the heck an exception came from when I've had source maps setup correctly.
I take this really just to mean "everyone has faults".
People often idealize heroes and think of them as beyond human. If you do that and met your hero then your illusion will often be shattered. But the problem is just that you were putting them on an unreasonable pedestal.
Of course some people are frauds and some people have no idea what they are doing but manage to make people think they do. But I didn't read this as being one of those situations. Just someone they saw as beyond human being only human.