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Unsure if this post is being astroturfed or not, but seeing HackerNews root for Microsoft and boo communities that embrace alternatives feels very, anti-hacker

Unsure if this post is being astroturfed or not, but seeing HackerNews root for Microsoft and boo communities that embrace alternatives feels very, anti-hacker in mentality. Sad state of affairs

flohofwoe 11mo ago
There was a short time period between when Balmer left and the beginning of Windows desktop enshittification with ads and the (frankly insufferable) AI hype where Microsoft appeared to be on the right path. A saner Microsoft acquiring Github could have actually turned out to be a good thing, but alas...
- account42 11mo ago
  > where Microsoft appeared to be on the right path Only to the hopelessly naive.
jswny 11mo ago
I don’t think people are questioning the move away from a gigacorp owned platform, but it’s the approach, the alternative chosen, and the brash language that are being questioned
mexicocitinluez 11mo ago
I'm not rooting for Microsoft, but comments like this: > with the remaining rookies eager to inflict some kind of bloated, buggy JavaScript framework on us in the name of progress. and > More importantly, Actions is created by monkeys are juvenile.
- nmz 11mo ago
  While juvenile, it is a fair point that github and all websites that ditch everything for javascript get less snappy to use.
  - politelemon 11mo ago
    Oh, so that makes the name calling justified.
    - nmz 11mo ago
      Isn't making things more performant a juvenile ideal? as I get older, I no longer care about making things better, just getting it done. (Not everyone is as polite as you lemon. Seems like the majority of the internet has namecalling tourettes :)
  - mexicocitinluez 11mo ago
    Yea but this is going from the assumption that there aren't benefits to using JavaScript or reasons other than snappiness for introducing new (or in this case a decade old framework). We don't know how these decisions are made, who is making them, or more importantly, why they're being made. And attributing all of that to the developers being monkeys make me think the author has never actually worked for a real company before or is conveniently forgetting what it's like to.
tastyface 11mo ago
Hacker News is a misnomer. This is a VC and FAANG mercenary watering hole.

Unsure if this post is being astroturfed or not, but seeing HackerNews root for Microsoft and boo communities that embrace alternatives feels very, anti-hacker in mentality. Sad state of affairs

flohofwoe 11mo ago

There was a short time period between when Balmer left and the beginning of Windows desktop enshittification with ads and the (frankly insufferable) AI hype where Microsoft appeared to be on the right path. A saner Microsoft acquiring Github could have actually turned out to be a good thing, but alas...

account42 11mo ago
> where Microsoft appeared to be on the right path Only to the hopelessly naive.

jswny 11mo ago

I don’t think people are questioning the move away from a gigacorp owned platform, but it’s the approach, the alternative chosen, and the brash language that are being questioned

mexicocitinluez 11mo ago

I'm not rooting for Microsoft, but comments like this: > with the remaining rookies eager to inflict some kind of bloated, buggy JavaScript framework on us in the name of progress. and > More importantly, Actions is created by monkeys are juvenile.

nmz 11mo ago
While juvenile, it is a fair point that github and all websites that ditch everything for javascript get less snappy to use.
- politelemon 11mo ago
  Oh, so that makes the name calling justified.
  - nmz 11mo ago
    Isn't making things more performant a juvenile ideal? as I get older, I no longer care about making things better, just getting it done. (Not everyone is as polite as you lemon. Seems like the majority of the internet has namecalling tourettes :)
- mexicocitinluez 11mo ago
  Yea but this is going from the assumption that there aren't benefits to using JavaScript or reasons other than snappiness for introducing new (or in this case a decade old framework). We don't know how these decisions are made, who is making them, or more importantly, why they're being made. And attributing all of that to the developers being monkeys make me think the author has never actually worked for a real company before or is conveniently forgetting what it's like to.

tastyface 11mo ago

Hacker News is a misnomer. This is a VC and FAANG mercenary watering hole.