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The article starts to edge on the switching costs issue and just misses it. Dislodging a great incumbent -- even if the greatness comes from its network effects
by lmeyerov 4y ago
The article starts to edge on the switching costs issue and just misses it. Dislodging a great incumbent -- even if the greatness comes from its network effects -- generally takes either the ability to eat it from the inside when marginally better... Or being well past marginally better. Most of the article is ultimately just not that important, for most use cases meriting a SPA, to give you the ecosystem benefits. React was such a tool, but the new ones are have individual innovations that are great but just not a night and day step up for teams. The market has rejected the categories in the blogpost as too weak ROI.
I do think it's fair to wonder what new frameworks ought to solve. Ex: As web GPU finally happens, we'd expect framework churn. Or, maybe it will be less about the framework, and more about the AI, or GIS+AR integration. Or some incredible tooling stack, like copilot is doing for autocomplete. Or maybe better multilplayer mode & collaboration. Just not smaller bundles and faster first paint.