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I often hear or see the term "opinionated" used in relation to deployment task-runners. All the cool kids are saying it these days.

For example, someone might says - " I don't use that task-runner, it's way too opinionated. I prefer this other task-runner".

For example on the Yeoman about page - http://yeoman.io/whyyeoman.html

Yeoman is a robust and opinionated client-side stack...

Or here on bower http://bower.io/

Bower is a package manager for the web. It offers a generic, unopinionated solution to the problem of front-end package management...

Sometimes I see it referring to JavaScript, e.g "The markup is highly opinionated".

What does this actually mean? Is this a new "thing" or has it been used for a while in web development?

Also can it be used in labelling from-end development markup like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery etc...

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    https://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/12182/what-does-opinionated-software-really-mean – Andy Apr 11 '14 at 10:32
  • [Same question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/802050/what-is-opinionated-software) was asked, and answered 4 years ago, so I don't think it's new. FWIW, I came here looking for the same answer and just discovered this myself. – tobyb Apr 11 '14 at 22:32

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