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From what I understand, the question is similar to “why do developers keep inventing new frameworks and new programming languages?” Maybe developers are justif
by nlitened 5y ago
From what I understand, the question is similar to “why do developers keep inventing new frameworks and new programming languages?”
Maybe developers are justifying their jobs. Maybe younger developers are excited about ditching the old crufty frameworks and languages, and exploring something new. Maybe every 10 years they reinvent the old wheels, and older developers are grumpy that the change was not needed in the first place.
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- alanbernstein 5y agoCreating new browsers doesn't bother me at all. I think the appropriate analogy is something closer to changing the spelling of a language's keywords arbitrarily. Change for the sake of change, which is easy enough to adjust to, but introduces a transition period that costs time, for no good reason. The backward compatibility effects aren't quite as bad in the browser context... except when the plugin API is affected.
- saurik 5y agoRight: every profession does stupid stuff I am sure, and developers certainly waste a lot of time throwing away good code to start over again; but I think today we are talking about designers?