Re:Angular 2 versus React
by kbenson on Monday January 04, 2016 @04:02PM
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This will only happen when there isn't a significant portion of new programmers entering the field/language/type of work. As long as there are people that don't know how to write pure, well-written and fast web apps, large frameworks will have a place. This is a good thing, because the more new programmers that try to figure this stuff out themselves the more clusterfuck projects we have. Frameworks allow for an easy onboarding process, where the people that need to reach deeper to accomplish something then look how to do that, and learn as they go.
There are parallels here with languages. Perl, which garnered a reputation as a write-only language, has seen a dramatic increase in the quality, legibility and effectiveness of modules over the last decade, and this corresponds well with the lack of an influx of new programmers (but with a minimum core of users still present to implement new modules). That said, there are many, many other problems when you don't have enough new blood flowing into your ecosystem, so I don't recommend it.
There are parallels here with languages. Perl, which garnered a reputation as a write-only language, has seen a dramatic increase in the quality, legibility and effectiveness of modules over the last decade, and this corresponds well with the lack of an influx of new programmers (but with a minimum core of users still present to implement new modules). That said, there are many, many other problems when you don't have enough new blood flowing into your ecosystem, so I don't recommend it.