It's interesting how thin a skin the React crowd has.
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It's interesting how thin a skin the React crowd has. They think I'm being deeply antagonistic when, in fact, I've been holding my fire (and the confidences of consulting counterparties) for ~8 years. This has only served to make things look *better* than they really are.
The damage I'm seeing isn't just in the public sector, or limited to exceptionally bad cases. It's now ecosystem-wide, and JS-first culture owns a share of the blame.
But why do I care? A short thread.
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@slightlyoff Your position is not controversial, although sometimes you troll those folks. To me, it’s:
You can even see this in bulid systems, where the build graph becomes unnecessarily opaque, because of CSS-in-JS etc.
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@sayrer To the extent that my...um...feedback...veers away from the anodyne it's because straight engineering discussion has not worked. They gaslight with abandon, and something stronger is needed to cut through and highlight the incoherence.
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@slightlyoff It's kind of sneaking through. I thought this one was funny:
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@sayrer A coworker (among others) sent me that, and my response was something like "'React bros discover HTML' needs its own blog"
