Re:React I love you, but you're bringing me down
by patcon on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @12:42PM
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> I realized React is trying to tame Facebook level of problems and hence their design decision steams from those data points.
Strong agreement!
There's a saying in community organizing and activist circles that goes something like:
"Don't apply the solutions of the butterfly to the problems of the caterpillar."
Imho it's a really important consideration when thinking about scale of movements (and nonprofits... and any community initiative...). This is especially true when "professional" people are always coming in and confidently over-applying their learnings in corporations to thinking about activism (which often, though not always, has very different incentive structures and lifecycles).
I think about this parable often in regards how all these scaled tech companies end up stewarding
the developer tools and therefore practices for everyone. And they tend to out-pace and out-broadcast other wonderful tools that could better serve the majority of developer niches.
Strong agreement!
There's a saying in community organizing and activist circles that goes something like:
"Don't apply the solutions of the butterfly to the problems of the caterpillar."
Imho it's a really important consideration when thinking about scale of movements (and nonprofits... and any community initiative...). This is especially true when "professional" people are always coming in and confidently over-applying their learnings in corporations to thinking about activism (which often, though not always, has very different incentive structures and lifecycles).
I think about this parable often in regards how all these scaled tech companies end up stewarding the developer tools and therefore practices for everyone. And they tend to out-pace and out-broadcast other wonderful tools that could better serve the majority of developer niches.