Comment by jfengel
7 months ago
It's why I'm always very skeptical of new languages and frameworks. They often look great on a PowerPoint slide, but it's not clear how they'll look on something complex and long-lasting.
They usually pick up warts added for some special case, and that's a sign that there will be infinitely many more.
There's a fine line between "applying experience" and "designing a whole new system around one pet peeve". But it's a crucial distinction.
With that attitude how would the presently accepted languages/frameworks have come about?
Probably slower and with more respect for existing tech.
But hey, now we have npm, so who cares anymore? :-)
Most languages are much older than we think. But early adoption is a key to geting to that point of when to "trust it". D isn't that much younger than C and its variants, and older than C#. But it never quite got that adoption to really push development to the point of C#
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Disrespect is part of progress, respectful humans are liable to blindness of flaws. Just as part of youthful creativity is disregard for what has come before.
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> "designing a whole new system around one pet peeve"
BAHHAHAH! So…you mean React. If I hear the word hook as if it alone can solve complexity in web dev one more time I’ll…eh, I’ll do nothing actually. But my point still stands. React solves asynchronous event driven behavior well, but that’s all. Everything else in React projects is, well, everything else.