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I don't find the distinction very useful either. But I think that a 10x developer is one who knows all the ins and outs of the tools in his or her belt. Who w

by cel1ne 10y ago

I don't find the distinction very useful either. But I think that a 10x developer is one who knows all the ins and outs of the tools in his or her belt. Who will prefer a 10-year-old framework that served him well over an opportunity to procrastinate by means of reinventing the wheel. (I'm looking at you, JavaScript-land) And who doesn't fall into the "tower of babel"-trap, which is the believe that there's a universal language and a perfect way of writing a program or structuring a system.

nine_k 10y ago
To be fair, there are few, if any, 10-years-old JS frameworks that one can still be productive with. Well, there's jQuery, which is still fine for very small things (an animation here, an AJAX call there), but is totally inadequate if you need to build a rich UI of the kind commonly expected now. You'll spend less time learning something like React or Vue and implementing things in it than you'd spend fighting with the callback hell and manually crafted state machines.
- cel1ne 10y ago
  I know and use React (and React-Native) daily, but, except the views which are in JSX/es6/7, I like to write everything in java or kotlin which I can run in the browser. There are a gazillion very useful Java-libraries out there. I just implemented a ListView with complex filtering, live text-matching and sorting for an Android/React-native-app which has no problem displaying 100.000 items or more using Java-libraries. React-Native's implementation on the other hand seems to be riddled with problems, judging from the bug-tracker and the confused API.
tluyben2 10y ago
Every few years I feel there must be a universal language; every few years I spend a few weekends and nights writing one. A Lisp always comes out. So next craving I will try more Clojure to span both web and native mobile. Until then I use 10+ year old tech to get work done.

by cel1ne 10y ago

nine_k 10y ago

To be fair, there are few, if any, 10-years-old JS frameworks that one can still be productive with. Well, there's jQuery, which is still fine for very small things (an animation here, an AJAX call there), but is totally inadequate if you need to build a rich UI of the kind commonly expected now. You'll spend less time learning something like React or Vue and implementing things in it than you'd spend fighting with the callback hell and manually crafted state machines.

cel1ne 10y ago
I know and use React (and React-Native) daily, but, except the views which are in JSX/es6/7, I like to write everything in java or kotlin which I can run in the browser. There are a gazillion very useful Java-libraries out there. I just implemented a ListView with complex filtering, live text-matching and sorting for an Android/React-native-app which has no problem displaying 100.000 items or more using Java-libraries. React-Native's implementation on the other hand seems to be riddled with problems, judging from the bug-tracker and the confused API.

tluyben2 10y ago

Every few years I feel there must be a universal language; every few years I spend a few weekends and nights writing one. A Lisp always comes out. So next craving I will try more Clojure to span both web and native mobile. Until then I use 10+ year old tech to get work done.