Have you ever burned your hands by some new and immature technology?

Question

I often hear people saying you shouldn\'t rush into adopting new technologies until they have become stable, tried and tested. There is even a joke on how it takes 3 versions to

Answer 1

The TurboGears web framework

I had a web app to write and jumped onto this (having heard about it from a friend). I wasn't really aware of the alternatives, didn't know MVC properly and wasn't aware of the alternatives to the various 'standard' components (eg. SQLAlchemy instead of SQLObject). While the documentation and general state of the project is far better than it was when I got my hands dirty, I ended up with a huge application that relied on 'tricks' to bypass some of the magic features and had lots of undocumented features in it to meet the deadlines. It became a maintenance nightmare and I really wish I had taken the time to build something simpler with plans for a rewrite if the requirements changed.

This was 1.x series which has been deprecated now for the Pylons based 2.x series. As you can imagine, the core team itself decided on a rearch but I was stuck with a legacy application which I had to maintain.