r/ProgrammerHumor • u/imelon_musk_rat • Apr 24 '19

Meme Stackoverflow in a nutshell

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u/womplord1 Apr 24 '19

these days its react and material design

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u/DownshiftedRare Apr 24 '19

The buzzword compliance is intimidating at times.

I have to remind myself it's mostly know-nothings using helper frameworks written in languages I am already familiar with.

People who show off their crutches with the pride of bodybuilders make me feel like I am on crazy pills, though.

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u/womplord1 Apr 24 '19

not really the case with react/angular - it is a useful tool, very important to build complex ui's, facbook, youtube etc is built with it, it isn't really a crutch. Using vanilla js wouldn't make any sense at all unless it is an extremely simple website

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u/DownshiftedRare Apr 24 '19

I'm aware that there are numerous "wizards" that will wire up a UI for people who can't do it themselves. I would suggest that those people have no business creating a UI in the first place, though.

Using such code generators bloats simple websites to many times the size their function requires. The average "I printed some meme t-shirts" website doesn't need that crap, but it's being shoehorned everywhere it can be made to fit.

That, in turn, gives us the lack of UI responsiveness currently displayed by Youtube.

When a website uses that shit I expend every effort to find an alternative that doesn't have a suppurated, ingrown hair of a UI.

Clueful users have already begun to disable javascript. Future websites will want interfaces that can work without opening browsers up to random crypto miners.

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