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What's a good recent example of hype-driven software? The only good example I can think of is MongoDB. All the other hyped techs in recent memory I can think of
by bernawil 7y ago
What's a good recent example of hype-driven software? The only good example I can think of is MongoDB.
All the other hyped techs in recent memory I can think of were all objectively good: Nodejs, Reactjs, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
In the same vein, I laugh every time someone brings out "javascript framework flavor of the month". That hasn't been true for 5 years at least.
- quickthrower2 7y agoYeah I agree web dev has settled imo on React/npm/typescript/webpack. I like the stability. Hooks is there for some excitement though!
- mjfisher 7y agoI think React would be a pretty good example of the kind of thing I'm talking about, actually. Just to be clear: I like React and I'm building a product with it right now of my own free choice. It does what it was built to do very well. The point I'm trying to make is that people often think in absolute terms. The problem isn't thinking "React is good for SPAs" - it's thinking "React is good for all websites". I've come across a number of engineers now who genuinely think React is a good fit for e.g. totally static sites, "because it's fast". I've come across similar persistent beliefs around NoSQL databases. Some teams wouldn't begin to consider an RDBMS for their primary data store, even while their data is heavily relational - because "SQL databases don't scale". It's not that technologies are good or bad - it's the blind belief that a given technology is best for all situations. The hype drives the development. Not of the underlying tech itself, but in the teams using that tech.