“Hello, (real) world” in PHP in 2017
I get that this article is satire, but I think the deepest (perhaps) unintentional insight presented by the author's veiled criticism is that the justification for using these tools is presented as "it's 2017" and not as a solution to any particular problem. The issue isn't the 2017 ecosystem, the issue is the 2017 programmer's deference to vanity instead of engineering. All these individual tools exist for a reason, and if your project is already functioning to specification without the use of these tools, <i>you shouldn't be using them</i>; doing otherwise is the developer's fault, not the tool's or the ecosystem's.