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Ryan and his insufferable Remix evangelists are the reason I never went beyond a quick hello world. And I like the concept. A while ago he had a Twitter serie

Ryan and his insufferable Remix evangelists are the reason I never went beyond a quick hello world. And I like the concept. A while ago he had a Twitter series “spot a React app” where he just shits on other peoples work. Such an odd way to promote his work.

nsonha 4y ago
And this weird obsession with form methods and the way they make it like if you dont use form method you are an idiot. Like get on with it, are there are other things in remix? I'd like to hear about them too!
freedomben 4y ago
> insufferable Remix evangelists That is so true. It's been driving me insane since Remix was announced/opened but I couldn't quite put my finger on why. It's because overnight there was an army of people preaching the new religion of Remix all over the place, and not a single one I asked could (at the time at least) tell me why it was better/different than Next.js (a project which IMHO rose on its merit and had to fight for every inch). They had clearly never looked seriously at Next.js before because every "feature" of Remix they were excited about was something Next.js already did. After a bit they started linking to a very long blog post from the Remix creator that supposedly explained why they were different, but after 10 minutes of looking through a post that was supposed to answer my question, all I had was anecdotal performance numbers about how Remix is "faster." In software we definitely do tend to cargo cult and worship good languages/frameworks, but the Remix "love" is (or was at least) over the top even for us.
- pier25 4y ago
  Yeah this is really common in people trying out niche things. Not only in software. Remember the "Don't worry, they'll tell you" jokes about vegans and crossfit? I think it must be some sort of evolutionary strategy to justify the risk/anxiety of going against the group.

nsonha 4y ago

And this weird obsession with form methods and the way they make it like if you dont use form method you are an idiot. Like get on with it, are there are other things in remix? I'd like to hear about them too!

freedomben 4y ago

> insufferable Remix evangelists That is so true. It's been driving me insane since Remix was announced/opened but I couldn't quite put my finger on why. It's because overnight there was an army of people preaching the new religion of Remix all over the place, and not a single one I asked could (at the time at least) tell me why it was better/different than Next.js (a project which IMHO rose on its merit and had to fight for every inch). They had clearly never looked seriously at Next.js before because every "feature" of Remix they were excited about was something Next.js already did. After a bit they started linking to a very long blog post from the Remix creator that supposedly explained why they were different, but after 10 minutes of looking through a post that was supposed to answer my question, all I had was anecdotal performance numbers about how Remix is "faster." In software we definitely do tend to cargo cult and worship good languages/frameworks, but the Remix "love" is (or was at least) over the top even for us.

pier25 4y ago
Yeah this is really common in people trying out niche things. Not only in software. Remember the "Don't worry, they'll tell you" jokes about vegans and crossfit? I think it must be some sort of evolutionary strategy to justify the risk/anxiety of going against the group.