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Re:Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff by CharlieDigital on Thursday February 09, 2023 @10:23AM (#34725351)
This is why React is so popular; not because it is inherently good or performance or has great DX but because of how easy it is to swap one so-so React dev for another so-so React dev.
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Re:Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff by mikepurvis on Thursday February 09, 2023 @10:41AM (#34725552)
Cynically, aren’t corporate blub languages like Java and Go kind of built on the same notion? That is, they intentionally limit the amount of complexity possible so that there is a low ceiling for mastery and workers are interchangeable.
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Re:Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff by CharlieDigital on Thursday February 09, 2023 @10:59PM (#34735438)
The bar for React and Java are very different.

Before you mention that one is a UI library and the other is a programming language: that's my point.

There are a lot of FE devs that work backwards from React to JS/TS.

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Re:Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff by urthor on Friday February 10, 2023 @08:40AM (#34739460)
They're used in that fashion, yes.
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Re:Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff by tukantje on Thursday February 09, 2023 @11:00AM (#34725933)
People who are not frontenders regularly look at frontend and think it is easier / simpler to work with.

If anything, complexity grew like an atom bomb.

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