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Re:Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front... by toyg on Sunday August 20, 2023 @12:27PM (#37200612)
Eat shit - billions of flies cannot be wrong. (cit.)

More seriously: once a bit of tech becomes mainstream, it becomes politically easier to use it. Your manager has not heard of <cool tech>, but he did read about React in some business magazine. So when the choice is between React and bheadmaster's Funky Funkness Framework, he'll go with React.

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Re:Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front... by ricardobayes on Sunday August 20, 2023 @12:58PM (#37200921)
No one ever got fired for choosing React
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Re:Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front... by arrowsmith on Monday August 21, 2023 @02:37AM (#37206106)
But some of them should have been.
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