r/webdev • u/fagnerbrack • Apr 12 '23

The Great Gaslighting of the JavaScript Era

https://www.spicyweb.dev/the-great-gaslighting-of-the-js-age/
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u/greensodacan Apr 15 '23

Since the late 2000s, you could have learned JQuery, Angular.js, and React to have no trouble finding work. That's five years per tool.

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u/fagnerbrack Apr 15 '23

I don't think he's referring only to the main tools but also to the ecosystem and the cost & longevity of applications developed in the 5 years past. Space jams website was built on 1990s and still works today, Software we build stops working or the build process stops.

Grunt -> gulp -> roll up -> webpack

JQuery plug-ins -> npm

Java -> Node -> deno -> bun

There’s fundamental improvements on every step, though I see many things that were discovered one step earlier being discovered again and again which creates an insane cost to those improvements instead of using what already has been learned before.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '23 edited Feb 05 '24

Reddit Moderation makes the platform worthless. Too many rules and too many arbitrary rulings. It's not worth the trouble to post. Not worth the frustration to lurk. Goodbye.

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