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So you stopped using a product because a junior engineer liked it? That doesn't strike me as the best rationale to make a decision.
by johnfn 3y ago
So you stopped using a product because a junior engineer liked it? That doesn't strike me as the best rationale to make a decision.
- boredtofears 3y agoSo you start using a product just because other people tell you they are popular? That doesn't strike me as the best rationale to make a decision.
- bentruyman 3y agoThat's not the argument being made. Nobody said that.
- boredtofears 3y agoJust like I never made the argument claimed either.
- johnfn 3y agoWhat did you mean by "I stopped paying attention" then? Was that a metaphor? It looks like you made the argument I claimed quite clearly.
- boredtofears 3y agoStopped paying attention to the hype? I never claimed to use next.js. How did I make that claim quite clearly exactly?
- 10xDev 3y agoNotice how you subconsciously called Next a product.
- johnfn 3y agoWhat's wrong with that? I have no illusions that Next.js is part of a larger strategy to get me to pay money for services. I feel the same way about VSCode and Azure, or Github and Copilot, etc. I don't have any problem with paying money for products that deserve it.
- satvikpendem 3y agoHow is it not a product? It is produced and used. Many types of software are also products, whether they're VC funded or not.
- 10xDev 3y agoI am not arguing that it is not. I very much agree Next is a product because it very much fits its definition: "an article or substance that is manufactured or refined for sale.". But this is wrong by definition: "Many types of software are also products, whether they're VC funded or not."