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Maybe some of it also has to do with curiosity. Web development isn't the most fulfilling work intellectually, and when I find myself drawn to interesting ideas
by sjmulder 11y ago
Maybe some of it also has to do with curiosity. Web development isn't the most fulfilling work intellectually, and when I find myself drawn to interesting ideas I want to play around with them somewhere. Of course the cookie cutter web app I maintain feels like the perfect candidate.
- im_down_w_otp 11y agoI'm not sure I follow. This is what I heard: 1. Template composition + event handlers is a solved problem. 2. Solved problems aren't interesting problems because they're already solved. 3. Churning the superficial shape and structure of this solved problem into ever more fractured and complex abstractions keeps it interesting. ?
- EvanPlaice 11y agoAngularJS is a prime example. Two-way data was a solved problem until people realized it wouldn't scale. Single Page Applications solve a lot of problems (ex better UX, offloading load from the server, better separation of concerns) but they introduce a lot of new ones (ex SEO, UI unresponsiveness, etc). This is the steady and painful march toward progress. Add new functionality, identify the weaknesses, ditch the useless functionality, recycle the good parts and start again to test new assumptions.