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I feel like all the tools that allow you to do X or Y faster, actually make maintainability and debugging magnitudes slower.

Which is why I've started avoiding anything I feel it's going to be difficult to read and maintain in the future by me or another person. I now always assume it's going to be another person, even if it's not, but this has helped me write more clear and concise code.

Even if the initial effort is more time consuming, it makes up for it in the end. Bootstrap and CoffeeScript are two tools that I feel suffer from that effect greatly.

Maybe it's a fallacy, because I have nothing to back my claims, but it's only my personal opinion, feel free to use whatever makes you happy.



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