While there are strong reasons for high level abstractions in applications where you need hordes of cheap available developers (these days most people you see on the street are considered web, database and php designers), there are applications that require custom tools, custom training. And they will be completely unportable, un-reusable, and it doesn't matter.
I think that all really interesting apps fall in this category and require their own unique tools that often need to work on a very low level, and that capable engineers couldn't care less whether they deal with tools that are known to fifty million or five people.
And that is a prerequisite of true innovation, daring to use tools and methods in spite of IT press hacks.
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While there are strong reasons for high level abstractions in applications where you need hordes of cheap available developers (these days most people you see on the street are considered web, database and php designers), there are applications that require custom tools, custom training. And they will be completely unportable, un-reusable, and it doesn't matter.
I think that all really interesting apps fall in this category and require their own unique tools that often need to work on a very low level, and that capable engineers couldn't care less whether they deal with tools that are known to fifty million or five people.
And that is a prerequisite of true innovation, daring to use tools and methods in spite of IT press hacks.