Re:Why Ageism Never Gets Old
by skrebbel on Thursday November 16, 2017 @10:51AM
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Going off topic fast, but I've felt recently that this speed has slowed again.
On the frontend, React has been king for quite a long time now, with no obvious contender in sight. Of course there's stuff like Vue but the difference isn't so big that people are throwing away their gigantic React codebases to restart anew with Vue (things that did happen a lot with jquery, bootstrap and even angular based frontends). The new kids on the block may be better, but only by a relatively small margin.
Similarly on the backend, Rails has been unfashionable for quite a while now, but there's no obvious single new framework that people are flocking to. Sure, there's many hip options, like Elixir/Phoenix, vanilla Go, and bunch of "serverless" frameworks, but just as many people just start their new projects on Rails, Laravel, and ExpressJS, because that shit is productive and it just works.
I feel like, decades after the desktop UI world, the web as a platform has pretty much matured. The core concepts aren't changing that much anymore. I think that maybe something fundamentally new has to happen again for this cycle to truly restart - just like the web as a software platform was once fundamentally new. We'll get new programmers who can reinvent all these ideas again in confusingly subtly different ways. It'll be fun!
On the frontend, React has been king for quite a long time now, with no obvious contender in sight. Of course there's stuff like Vue but the difference isn't so big that people are throwing away their gigantic React codebases to restart anew with Vue (things that did happen a lot with jquery, bootstrap and even angular based frontends). The new kids on the block may be better, but only by a relatively small margin.
Similarly on the backend, Rails has been unfashionable for quite a while now, but there's no obvious single new framework that people are flocking to. Sure, there's many hip options, like Elixir/Phoenix, vanilla Go, and bunch of "serverless" frameworks, but just as many people just start their new projects on Rails, Laravel, and ExpressJS, because that shit is productive and it just works.
I feel like, decades after the desktop UI world, the web as a platform has pretty much matured. The core concepts aren't changing that much anymore. I think that maybe something fundamentally new has to happen again for this cycle to truly restart - just like the web as a software platform was once fundamentally new. We'll get new programmers who can reinvent all these ideas again in confusingly subtly different ways. It'll be fun!