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Leaning assembler, Cobol and Turbo Pascal as my first languages, the "React isn't going to disappear overnight" made me smile: not overnight, but in the current
by AdrianB1 7y ago
Leaning assembler, Cobol and Turbo Pascal as my first languages, the "React isn't going to disappear overnight" made me smile: not overnight, but in the current times the fragmentation and short lifespan of every language or framework makes things worse, not better. There are bank systems still running on very old platforms and languages and these companies saved billions of dollars not changing every 3-5 years to the "framework of the day with free soda and a pancake".
Btw, I kind of like Vue, just confirming the idea that frameworks may not be the best thing since sliced bread. They can be great with some conditions that are not met. Now, they are throwaway, like jQuery you correctly mentioned.
- earthboundkid 7y agoThere is a great book from 1991 called "Programming as if People Mattered." What I took from it is that UI programming has always been a mess compared to backend, in part because the domain about people, which is just an intrinsically more complicated thing to deal with. Knuth created the Knuth shuffle and now no one needs to do that again. But every UI has to recreate what Fitt's Law means for their paradigm. It's a different kind of thing.