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I did web development work in the early 2000s (PHP, MySQL) and briefly in 2013-2014. In the past few years, I explored a recent version of Angular, React, and s
by ozzythecat 5y ago
I did web development work in the early 2000s (PHP, MySQL) and briefly in 2013-2014. In the past few years, I explored a recent version of Angular, React, and some other framework.
The tooling seemed really nice at first, but I was actually shocked at the number of dependencies and just the overall complexity with all the layers of abstractions.
Fundamentally, these are still websites. I honestly see this as people getting bored, inventing new things to deal with their boredom, and the rest of the industry follows.
Meanwhile, the services I was writing in Java like 10 years ago haven’t really changed. We agreed Spring sucked and moved on. At a FANG where I work, we use Java and Kotlin. A lot of my data crunching jobs are in Scala. We did start using Rust for shared libraries deployed on mobile operating systems… because the entire team preferred it over C++.
But I come back to web development and there’s always a new flavor of solving the same problem. /shrug
- BoumTAC 5y agoI do not understand it too. The cost due to the complexity is at least 10 times more. It feels strange to me that nobody in the hierarchy consider it. I do understand that developer like to play with new technology and don't care about the cost as long as they can play with it and get paid but the hierarchy must have seen the millions dollars lost. Why did they do not say something about it ?
- SavantIdiot 5y agoI met a guy at a bar in San Jose who worked at a web startup in the early 2010's. He said they easily spent over one million in UI/UX resources just to animate form validation because the default browser validation wasn't cool enough for their brand.