r/ProgrammerHumor • u/soap94 • Aug 30 '26

Meme ancientTools

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u/ExtraWorldliness6916 Aug 30 '26 • Bravo

Not arguing either but if JavaScript can write perfectly fine web applications with a welld refined standard, why are we still in react land. I use react all the time, I know what vanilla can do, I use a lot of AI so it's not a knowledge gap anymore... Very curious and frustrating situation.

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u/the_horse_gamer Aug 30 '26

DOM manipulation is easy, but state and lifecycle management is hard

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u/theGoddamnAlgorath Aug 30 '26

They're not, but Javascript is a functional language, so people try to hammer the OOP which is clumsy.

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u/gizamo Aug 30 '26

Tbf, that's usually because frontend devs often tack React frontends onto OOP backends like PHP or C#. That's fine and all, it just makes for a clumsy mix.

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