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This perfectly summarizes what I've been saying. Popular tools are not the most effective ones. The people who are leading our current tech monoculture are not
by jongjong 3y ago
This perfectly summarizes what I've been saying. Popular tools are not the most effective ones.
The people who are leading our current tech monoculture are not qualified to be making such decisions and imposing them on such large numbers of people. The artificiality of our current tech culture is obvious. It doesn't feel organic, not free market.
- jonwinstanley 3y agoPresumably tools only get popular if people find them useful though? As in, if no-one saw value in them then no-one would use them?
- tempmac 3y agohmm maybe it's more related to marketing and who got the vc money first?
- progx 3y agoPeople normally use not the best things, they use things they understand. Then they are so happy, that they understand it, they write blog article about it, other read it and think "it must be a good thing", then more and more use it. And if more people use it, other think "it must be a good thing, cause many use it". Self runner.
- jongjong 3y agoI think that doesn't adequately explain what's going on. A lot of tools that are popular are horrible to use. They just got a lot of exposure and that was enough to gain adoption. The inequality of exposure of projects is massive and hard to overstate. Even if a bad project is exposed to 10 million developers over a few months, it will become a standard. On the other hand, a project which only got 100K views over 10 years will never be adopted no matter how good it is. People can talk about how good it is, but that doesn't matter at all; the only thing that matters are the algorithms used by the big tech platforms and they have all been corrupted.
- tempmac 3y agoditto this most tailwind projects have very wiiidddeee classnames in one line... which means I can't have split tabs on my vscode