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Odd if nobody has mentioned yet how dominant frameworks such as React are usually hand-me-downs from market incumbents. I view them primarily as elaborate false
by balamatom 2y ago
Odd if nobody has mentioned yet how dominant frameworks such as React are usually hand-me-downs from market incumbents. I view them primarily as elaborate false abstractions; heavily astroturfed, intentionally suboptimal solutions for the sake of disempowering workers and creating jerbs, thus precluding emergent competition.
A junior would get a nice sense of mastery from figuring what the hell the framework authors must've been thinking when they designed it ass-backwards, but in the long run would burn out and become unwilling to learn the (usually simpler) layer underneath the abstraction. While a senior who's become wise to the racket would have to contend with the next crop of junes normalizing an even more nonsensical tool for accomplishing even less with even more because that's what the influencers influenced them to think.
- keepamovin 2y agoI totally have the same view. At least I did when I was focused on them. Now I barely think about them at all. Something pernicious about it, isn't it? The deliberate over-engineering of false complexity to bog down potential competitors! Shed a tear for the billions of human hours wasted by millions of startups on stupid ideas in these frameworks! A junior would get a nice sense of mastery from figuring what the hell the framework authors must've been thinking when they designed it ass-backwards lol, totally! But I also feel like it would ruin that junior's brain! I always avoided them, luckily my aesthetic intuition totally warned me off kept me miles away. I am not poisoning myself with that hahaha! :) Hopefully no acolytes encounter these comments - the medicine will be too bitter for them. Your answer is the vibe of a whole era (2010s shiny engineering), thank you!
- balamatom 2y ago>aesthetic intuition The quality. Thank you for keeping the fire burning!