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Just because it’s a one liner to install something doesn’t mean you aren’t installing a big, complex, over-engineered thing.
by christophilus 3y ago
Just because it’s a one liner to install something doesn’t mean you aren’t installing a big, complex, over-engineered thing.
- tail_exchange 3y agoSure, but if you want to use React to build a Hello World app, the framework is not the one I would blame for overengineering.
- uxp8u61q 3y agoLook at your computer. Are all its parts and pieces strictly necessary to display the text "Hello world" on your screen? No. Why don't you throw it away and buy something simpler, then?
- laputan_machine 3y ago[flagged]
- bentlegen 3y agoReact is a general purpose web framework, and is routinely used to do more than serving static documents. I would argue it was never even designed (originally) for that use case. And yet because it can, we have to have this tiring endless debate.
- uxp8u61q 3y ago> Because they are called "libraries" for a reason, it can do much more than "Hello, World", and they are routinely used for much more than that. There you go.
- laputan_machine 3y ago> When you're writing a specific program, e.g. it's never going to be anything more than "Hello, world!", why would you use the fattest framework when you can write it in plain HTML? Emphasised the parts I think you should re-read
- uxp8u61q 3y agoSorry, I guess I disregarded it because I figured we were talking about serious programming, not literally "Hello world". And if you're writing a single "Hello world", HTML is overkill. Make a free website on a random platform and literally just write "Hello world" in their WYSIWIG editor. Or hell, just serve plain text with "Hello world" inside, browsers will render it just fine.
- satvikpendem 3y ago> why would you use the fattest framework when you can write it in plain HTML? I mean, don't use "the fattest framework" then, who is forcing you to use it for writing hello world?
- laputan_machine 3y agoAs you get more experienced in programming you'll inevitably inherit projects that you didn't have any say over, when that time comes come back to this comment, I'd be interested to hear if you still feel the same way.
- satvikpendem 3y agoI have inherited such projects. But it seems like you're talking about code that is no more complex than hello world, as you've quoted, so it wouldn't be too complex to do in any language or framework. Now if you do inherit a larger project that you don't like, well, you either work on it or you switch jobs.
- laputan_machine 3y ago> Now if you do inherit a larger project that you don't like, well, you either work on it or you switch jobs. Which you wouldn't have to contemplate if your predescessor had simply used the right tool for the right job, right? Such as not using an over-engineered framework for a problem that didn't need to use one. :) Cheers!
- butlike 3y agoAs someone who can juxtapose OS X 10.5 to the latest Ventura release... believe me, I wish I could.
- Merad 3y agoI find it curious that we always see these opinions expressed about front end frameworks, but no one seems to have much problem with all of the complexity in back end frameworks like node, Python, Java, .Net... I have a sneaking suspicion that people are just more used to having complexity hidden from them behind a framework install, whereas front end puts everything front and center since it's all delivered to your project via npm.