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Why does Facebook keep pumping out 21st century moral equivalents of UML and OOP design patterns - trendy technological ideas that are often considered the gate
by torginus 2y ago
Why does Facebook keep pumping out 21st century moral equivalents of UML and OOP design patterns - trendy technological ideas that are often considered the gateway to writing 'professional' code, but end up being overengineered boilerplate nobody actually needs.
GraphQL is one, Redux is another.
- LudwigNagasena 2y agoFew companies operate on a scale of Facebook.
- burutthrow1234 2y agoGraphQL makes sense in the narrow context of "you have a high latency end-user and you're pulling in deeply nested social graph data". It didn't need to be a general purpose framework, but you don't get to start your own company and talk at conventions about the clever API design you did at Facebook for Facebook-only problems. The incentives are for (a certain type of) developers to act like this solution is a panacea and sell it as a revolutionary new architecture.