Re:HTML First – Six principles for building simple, maintain...
by mekoka on Sunday November 12, 2023 @05:40PM
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People buy into ideas and once they've paid the price, they dislike when that investment is challenged with new information. The resistance that I see in these thread to the idea that going back to HTML might be enough, to me looks very much like that.
Basecamp (formerly 37signals) has a track record of challenging the status quo, whether in business or engineering practices and to actually be fair, they're not changing their front-end philosophy on a whim or to simply follow a fad. They're trying to solve real problems. In the past, their flagship product served as proof that exposed many established counter-advices as merely baseless beliefs. Over the years, they've demonstrated how many "bad ideas" could actually work better, once you become more pragmatic.
They might not be BIG, but they're also not small. Imo, what they say and do engineering-wise tends to matter much more to average developers than what Facebook or Google might recommend.
I think the question stands, is Basecamp a good enough example?
Basecamp (formerly 37signals) has a track record of challenging the status quo, whether in business or engineering practices and to actually be fair, they're not changing their front-end philosophy on a whim or to simply follow a fad. They're trying to solve real problems. In the past, their flagship product served as proof that exposed many established counter-advices as merely baseless beliefs. Over the years, they've demonstrated how many "bad ideas" could actually work better, once you become more pragmatic.
They might not be BIG, but they're also not small. Imo, what they say and do engineering-wise tends to matter much more to average developers than what Facebook or Google might recommend.
I think the question stands, is Basecamp a good enough example?