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OTOH, smart people seem to constantly try to reinvent existing products or over-engineer tools to set themselves apart and create a new business. See the endles

OTOH, smart people seem to constantly try to reinvent existing products or over-engineer tools to set themselves apart and create a new business. See the endless stream of new JS frameworks popping up every day. Or the myriad ways that people try to create clouds on top of clouds (Yo dawg! I heard you like clouds!). Or new databases (although I confess I follow these). Or reinventing static HTML page delivery. ... and it goes on and on. All of these are smart people investing time and energy into a "solution" ... where there may not actually be a problem to begin with.

robertlagrant 4y ago
> See the endless stream of new JS frameworks popping up every day Citation needed. E.g. 2010: AngularJS, Backbone 2011: EmberJS, ReactJS 2012: MeteorJS 2013: HexoJS 2014: CycleJS, VueJS 2015: MithrilJS, PolymerJS, Serverless Framework 2016: Angular2, AureliaJS, NextJS, Svelte Those are a lot of the most popular ones, and some not very popular. Do you really consider this an endless stream of new JS frameworks popping up every day?
- mardifoufs 4y ago
  Yes!! Thank you!! If anything webdev is very boring (in a good way) right now, React is a de facto standard with Angular and VueJs. It's such an outdated stereotype. And it's especially funny considering how "greybeard oldschool" stuff like Linux distros, utils and packaging seem to have a lot more of an "endless stream of new stuff" right now.