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Most of the time it's a desire to please and there's a hesitance to tell users: "if you want to use this tool then conform to its standards and conventions".
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Sometimes tools are too flexible. Configuration options that only exist to support every single possible use case. For example, being able to customize the folder name for a tests. Many small customizations that compound in an unnecessarily complex tool.
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Can't imagine someone wanting a non-English folder structure :)
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Do you want localization for every single tool? CLI commands and flags, error messages too?
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This is extremely pervasive in the JavaScript ecosystem. Perhaps a direct response to so many of the 90s/00s programming trends of convention > configuration.
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90s and 00s were configuration-heavy. The Java ecosystem was similar to JS today in this regard. Ruby on Rails came in as an answer to that with stromg conventions.
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Why? In project A I want it to be 'test', project B 'tests', project C '__tests__', project D 'specs'. Makes tons of sense!
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I loved my Ruby on Rails days where I could drop in on a project and know exactly where things are.
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I always said that webpack is an operating system
. Indeed, it is a double edged sword: it's greatest strength and weakness.
But thanks to the efforts of the @webpack team, nowadays it has sensible defaults and it isn't as tough to manage as a few years ago.
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the convention used to be having separate test and source directory, now it's collocated test files. If tools dont adapt they will be enforcing a convention that's no longer widely aggreed.
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Oh, me and a lot of people still have separate folders...
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