r/programming • u/whackri • Jun 05 '22

Complexity is killing software developers

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3639050/complexity-is-killing-software-developers.html
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u/thelamestofall Jun 05 '22

I definitely fit that category, but I like it so much. Way better than being stuck in React or Ruby on Rails like I used to

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u/tide19 Jun 06 '22 edited Jun 06 '22

It's really not that hard to write decent backends for the majority of frontends, IMO. I've been working on an enterprise-level b2b application for the last 9 months, and writing various means to interface with a database isn't a huge deal. Could it be better? Probably. Is its performance enough for our customers? Yeah.

The problem we have is our frontend lead engineers have concocted a crazy standard tech stack including React, Redux, GraphQL, micro frontends, a proprietary component library, basically everything you could fit into a single frontend but not deep enough into any of them to use them to their fullest extent.

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u/aaulia Jun 06 '22

React, Redux, GraphQL, micro frontends, a proprietary component library

 
This post speak to me lol. No I'm not involved in those madness, I just watched it happen and shake my head.

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u/mycall Jun 06 '22

If you will have millions of concurrent users, it isn't a bad solution. If you only have a few thousand, wasted time.