A Low Floor Is Not a Low Ceiling

There is a moment at the beginning of using a framework when the framework tells you what kind of developer it thinks you are. It rarely says this directly. It says it by what it asks of you before your own idea is allowed to appear. It says it through the scaffold it generates, the folders it names, the configuration files it creates, the conventions it assumes you already understand, and the amount of system you must accept before the smallest useful program can run. This first moment matters