Re:I fell in love with low-JS
by robertlagrant on Thursday May 05, 2022 @10:52AM
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> backend guys come in and act like they know about how this went
I'm getting the impression you think this is West Side Story: Software Edition, and that you think other people are aware of this. It's just some individuals talking about a very abstract topic. Nothing to get upset about.
I get very upset at the idea that Koolaid dictates front end development. It’s the same backwards superiority from backend devs as I saw a decade ago, except their languages and frameworks have barely meaningfully progressed and they still like to shit on UI dev, like their work is somehow more valuable than it.
Re:I fell in love with low-JS
by robertlagrant on Friday May 06, 2022 @10:42AM
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> the same backwards superiority from backend devs as I saw a decade ago
Again, even from observing you in this thread you've decided one comment represents all backend developers. You probably made the same mistake a decade ago. It's not us vs them. It's just some individuals talking.
It’s just plainly absurd. In front end, it went from Java -> JS transpilers to vanilla JS and jQuery to ideas to Knockback and then finally to React and that generation of frameworks. Somewhere in here TS became non negotiable and so we write strictly typed front end code on top of high quality libraries.
Meanwhile, backend guys come in and act like they know about how this went, it was just Facebook and Koolaid - those web guys don’t think for themselves. They were dictated to.
What a joke.