>We used to tell the kids when they would tell us how easy it was to copy our functionality, "you don't know what you don't know".
I don't feel qualified to weigh in on the esoterica of tool advantages but I'd like to make the observation that in solving business problems with computers the real heavy lifting is in knowing *what* to build more than *how* to build it. A solid knowledge of the underlying business problem trumps pretty much everything else in determining success and is the sine qua non of any real 'solution'. I think anyone converting an app who is only trying to 'copy functionality' - as you correctly assess - doesn't know what they don't know. Slinging code is brick laying, it ain't architecture.
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