The Cost of JavaScript Frameworks

Re:The Cost of JavaScript Frameworks by enahs-sf on Friday May 08, 2020 @02:41PM (#23118022)

While there’s some truth to this, 3 years down the road when the codebase is a spaghetti nightmare, all the original authors have moved onto other companies and the impending refactor is looming, management starts to wonder: was it really worth it?

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Re:The Cost of JavaScript Frameworks by somestag on Friday May 08, 2020 @03:09PM (#23118281)

I wish that were what happens. Then maybe management would learn over time and the industry would smarten up.

Instead what happens is that the old developers built big things on-time so they were "good developers," and then the new developers struggle with the code and so management assumes the new devs are less competent.

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Re:The Cost of JavaScript Frameworks by goatlover on Friday May 08, 2020 @06:10PM (#23120115)

Probably the old developers did so also because being on time meant skimping on technical debt due to management setting unrealistic deadlines.

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