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Discussion on: What’s an unpopular software opinion you have?

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Michael Campbell

"Use the right tool for the job" is horrible advice. No one deliberately uses the wrong thing, willingly. Sometimes you are forced to, but even then you KNOW it's the wrong thing.

It something people say because they heard it, it's obviously not falsifiable, and it makes them sound wise since no one is going to disagree.

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kshitijmeets • Edited

It's almost always the right tool at the point it was selected. All tools in software will look wrong(obsolete) after 5 years. The problem is, people judge the decisions taken at the inception of a project/task well after all the initial conditions have changed.