Ask HN: How do you overcome decision fatigue in software development?

📰 Hacker News · jb1991

Name any kind of project in nearly any domain, and you can choose from a dizzying array of possible language choices and tech-stacks. The modern state of software development in nearly any mature ecosystem, and many even that aren't so mature, allows for building just about anything on any platform. Want to build a web app, but don't like javascript? There are so many options in languages that compile to JS, as well as languages with front-end WASM frameworks. Want to write a websocket server? Nearly any language can do that now too. Want to store your data? Phew don't get me started on the infinite ways to do that one, with or without a database, with or without a server... it just seems overwhelming, in part because software development is very time-consuming. You don't want to spend all the time on the inferior choice or the choice that will bite you later and trigger a rewrite and decision fatigue all over again. Or so the psychology seems to go. How do you deal

Published 16 Aug 2020
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