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Ask HN: What are some unpopular opinions you got?

7 points by laserstrahl 2y ago

Hi folks, Since many of HN users are well educated people I trust I want to know which unpopular opinions you got? For me I think everything's fine the way it is. Life is evolving and a continuous movement. What are your out of the box opinions about ... everything?

fsflover 2y ago
All publicly funded software must be public, https://publiccode.eu https://publiccode.eu.
Terr_ 2y ago
Well... Java's "Checked Exceptions" are fundamentally a great feature, held back by a lack of syntactic-sugar and and negative reactions from lazy coders who didn't like it when the compiler told them they needed to think about error handling. More languages should offer the same kind of feature.
not_your_vase 2y ago
Visual Basic is more memory safe than Rust
amazingman 2y ago
GitOps is a bad choice for deploying your line-of-business applications.
peutetre 2y ago
That WebAssembly will kill off JavaScript. JavaScript is already dead, it just doesn't know it. We've entered the era of Zombie JavaScript.
- solardev 2y ago
  How will WASM modify the DOM without JS?
  - peutetre 2y ago
    Eventually by using the component model which will expose the DOM API. It will get to direct wasm to WebIDL calls one day: https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model The component model is being used for the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI). WASI provides operating system integration for wasm applications outside the browser: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/tree/main https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/tree/main In the meantime you can use JavaScript glue code auto-generated by your toolchain to access the DOM. This will be made better with builtins like the js-string-builtins proposal: https://github.com/WebAssembly/js-string-builtins/blob/main/proposals/js-string-builtins/Overview.md https://github.com/WebAssembly/js-string-builtins/blob/main/... You can call JavaScript functions and DOM methods from wasm like this example from Hoot, which is a Scheme to wasm compiler: https://spritely.institute/news/building-interactive-web-pages-with-guile-hoot.html https://spritely.institute/news/building-interactive-web-pag...
Quinzel 2y ago
One of my unpopular opinion is that I think that it is unethical to do “gender affirming” procedures and treatments in children and young people under 18 years of age. Another unpopular opinion I hold is that I think dogs are superior to cats.
- Terr_ 2y ago
  Doesn't that mean it's equally-unethical for teenage boys (self-identifying and assigned-at-birth and parental agreement) to get treatment for gynomastia? Puberty and high-school locker rooms can be tough enough as-is, then imagine the extra hell of being teased and ostracized as Boobie Boy for years.
RadiozRadioz 2y ago
TypeScript as a backend language does not make a lot of sense when you can choose a real statically typed language instead. It's only useful if you're already stuck in the JavaScript ecosystem and need types.
RadiozRadioz 2y ago
React is not the best frontend framework, and it's only popular now because it's popular and has momentum. I'd go a step further to say that React is not a framework - it's a library that people have cobbled together "frameworks" around.
- Terr_ 2y ago
  I feel that describes a lot of the JS ecosystem in general.
fsflover 2y ago
Related earlier discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39820836 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39820836 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32477083 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32477083 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24007456 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24007456 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17915298 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17915298 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39820836 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39820836 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39820836 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39820836 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23494653 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23494653
solardev 2y ago
- The Borg were the good guys and the galaxy and various timelines would be better off if they assimilated the Federation - Evolution's uneven pacing caused human problem-solving ability to grow far quicker than our moral and social ability, resulting in a violent, selfish ape with powers far beyond what our societies can truly support. To really progress socially, it is not enough to merely evolve human culture and knowledge, but to evolve the human genome itself (or some manufactured equivalent thereof). See also: The Borg were the good guys. - Generationally speaking, today's kids will have a worse life than we did. Their own kids and grandkids will be even worse off. - React is awesome. Next.js is pretty nice for the right use case, despite its complexity and learning curve - Cloudflare is one of the few companies actually driving the Web forward - Game streaming (via GeForce Now) is a tremendously better value proposition than owning & upgrading gaming PCs every few years - Both major U.S. political parties suck (maybe this isn't that unpopular these days...) I guess this means we should make a new human species coded in React and host the entire society in Cloudflare or something like that...? Didn't get that far yet...