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This was true when stackoverflow came out and jquery gave the best upvoteable succint answers. This too shall pass.
by TZubiri 1y ago
This was true when stackoverflow came out and jquery gave the best upvoteable succint answers.
This too shall pass.
- hu3 1y agoSome with Windows. Sure it has a lot of staying power because of network effects (and qualities like backwards compatibility and gaming). But it's not a terminal, self-reinforcing snowball, force of nature like the article implies React is.
- TZubiri 1y agoThere's some properties that ensure it's moat. Developers need to learn React and there's not much transferability of knowledge from the underlying tech. If I know Debian, I can understand most of Ubuntu. However if I know HTML, I'll probably understand react even less. This is a great tactic of having a vendor lock in not only at the infrastructure level of a company, but at the programmer level.