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This is why React is so popular; not because it is inherently good or performance or has great DX but because of how easy it is to swap one so-so React dev for
by CharlieDigital 4y ago
This is why React is so popular; not because it is inherently good or performance or has great DX but because of how easy it is to swap one so-so React dev for another so-so React dev.
- mikepurvis 4y agoCynically, aren’t corporate blub languages like Java and Go kind of built on the same notion? That is, they intentionally limit the amount of complexity possible so that there is a low ceiling for mastery and workers are interchangeable.
- urthor 4y agoThey're used in that fashion, yes.
- CharlieDigital 4y agoThe bar for React and Java are very different. Before you mention that one is a UI library and the other is a programming language: that's my point. There are a lot of FE devs that work backwards from React to JS/TS.
- tukantje 4y agoPeople who are not frontenders regularly look at frontend and think it is easier / simpler to work with. If anything, complexity grew like an atom bomb.