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That while it might be difficult to articulate, the churn of technologies does represent a meaningful search and forward march of progress. The churn is the res
by musingsole 5y ago
That while it might be difficult to articulate, the churn of technologies does represent a meaningful search and forward march of progress. The churn is the result of ever more rapid progress on an increasingly abstract knowledge system. However, it is hard to recognize positive structural change as just another worker bee in the hive.
- systemvoltage 5y agoI don't buy this. The whole thing is enabled by hard work of browser developers enabling all this hot mess without much performance impact. JS is blazing fast and it creates a massive wild-wild-west of framework gold rush. Instead of being responsible, they create ever more bloatware that doesn't stand for 6 months.
- tyingq 5y agoIt's interesting you chose "march" because I see it as not that. There is rapid forward progress, as you say, but it's individual parts sprinting at different paces. "March" would imply they were moving together.
- mattgreenrocks 5y agoThis is too simplistic. Progress is not inevitable. There is no guarantee that the objective being optimized by the JavaScript Community(tm) is necessarily a better one than before. Churn can easily be driven by fashion as much as what you call “progress.”