Re:Web Components Eliminate JavaScript Framework Lock-In
by austin-cheney on Monday November 27, 2023 @12:55PM
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As a full time JavaScript developer of 15 years it boils down to 2 reasons.
1. Eases candidate selection. There is no uniform baseline of competence in software generally and certainly nothing exists for web development. Its often the blind leading the blind, so outsource everything to a tool. At the very least, people that cannot use that tool are then not qualified to be there if you discount absolutely everything else. After all, it isn't as though employers are willing to train new developers to perform as required, so they need to turn this into a commodity as much as possible.
2. Composition. Most of the people who do web development cannot write original software, plan, or organize at the level required by modern applications. Employers still need people to do trivial things to get text to appear on screen. As the demand for these trivial tasks still exists employers still need to hire people to do this work, and so they attempt to outsource the parts that require higher intelligence.
These beg the obvious question: What will happen when employers realize they don't need to overpay developers to do this work when half of it can be pushed into content management systems and the other half can be pushed into AI?
1. Eases candidate selection. There is no uniform baseline of competence in software generally and certainly nothing exists for web development. Its often the blind leading the blind, so outsource everything to a tool. At the very least, people that cannot use that tool are then not qualified to be there if you discount absolutely everything else. After all, it isn't as though employers are willing to train new developers to perform as required, so they need to turn this into a commodity as much as possible.
2. Composition. Most of the people who do web development cannot write original software, plan, or organize at the level required by modern applications. Employers still need people to do trivial things to get text to appear on screen. As the demand for these trivial tasks still exists employers still need to hire people to do this work, and so they attempt to outsource the parts that require higher intelligence.
These beg the obvious question: What will happen when employers realize they don't need to overpay developers to do this work when half of it can be pushed into content management systems and the other half can be pushed into AI?