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God I am sick of the passive-agressive "Finally, we have something GOOD! for X" titles that disparage everything that already exists for X. I saw a reddit arti
by rurounijones 13y ago
God I am sick of the passive-agressive "Finally, we have something GOOD! for X" titles that disparage everything that already exists for X.
I saw a reddit article yesterday about "Finally a way of doing X that doesn't suck" despite there already being libraries to do X.
This casual dismissal and disparaging of existing work is the kind of thing that causes people to give up on stuff (WhytheLuckyStiff for example)
It also causes me to be instantly antagonistic towards said new library / feature. It raises the bar that I expect them ot reach. "Oh? You are the ONLY good way to do something? Prove it"
- danenania 13y agoYou are making the same sort of evidence-less dismissal that you accuse the OP of (whereas the OP actually explains the reasoning behind his assertion). If you want to question the post's premise, at least point to some of these libraries that you believe are on par with react. Personally, I'm not aware of any that have nearly as compelling a model with regard to performance, composability, and minimization of mutable state. But if they exist, I'd love to know about them.
- magicalist 13y agoThere's no dismissal in the GP's post. They were merely stating that pretending that some project X is an island is off-putting (and it never is one), and that by claiming that it is, you put some readers already familiar with the field in a defensive mood rather than ready to read about something new.
- antjanus 13y agoHonestly, articles like that get more attention and discussion on HN. After the first person comments about how they're sick of articles that are titled like that, a real discussion starts among the other comments which is the goal. If the author named it: "React: A great way to do this and that". It'd get 5 upvotes, 10 minutes in the primetime and die off.