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Re:Karpathy on Programming by simonw on Monday December 29, 2025 @05:11PM (#46426387)
> For example, writing more vanilla JS instead of React, you're just reinventing the necessary abstractions more verbosely and with a higher risk of duplicate code or mismatching abstractions.

Right, but I'm also getting pages that load faster and don't require a build step, making them more convenient to hack on. I'm enjoying that trade-off a lot.

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Re:Karpathy on Programming by joquarky on Monday December 29, 2025 @08:43PM (#46428519)
Vanilla JS is also a lot more capable than it was when React was invented.

And yeah, you can't beat the iteration speed.

I feel like there are dozens of us.

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Re:Karpathy on Programming by mycall on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @12:33AM (#46441677)
Same with the latest CSS removing need for JS in many use cases in HTML.
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