Comment by budududuroiu
1 day ago
Unsure if this post is being astroturfed or not, but seeing HackerNews root for Microsoft and boo communities that embrace alternatives feels very, anti-hacker in mentality.
Sad state of affairs
1 day ago
Unsure if this post is being astroturfed or not, but seeing HackerNews root for Microsoft and boo communities that embrace alternatives feels very, anti-hacker in mentality.
Sad state of affairs
I don’t think people are questioning the move away from a gigacorp owned platform, but it’s the approach, the alternative chosen, and the brash language that are being questioned
Hacker News is a misnomer. This is a VC and FAANG mercenary watering hole.
There was a short time period between when Balmer left and the beginning of Windows desktop enshittification with ads and the (frankly insufferable) AI hype where Microsoft appeared to be on the right path. A saner Microsoft acquiring Github could have actually turned out to be a good thing, but alas...
> where Microsoft appeared to be on the right path
Only to the hopelessly naive.
I'm not rooting for Microsoft, but comments like this:
> with the remaining rookies eager to inflict some kind of bloated, buggy JavaScript framework on us in the name of progress.
and
> More importantly, Actions is created by monkeys
are juvenile.
While juvenile, it is a fair point that github and all websites that ditch everything for javascript get less snappy to use.
Oh, so that makes the name calling justified.
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Yea but this is going from the assumption that there aren't benefits to using JavaScript or reasons other than snappiness for introducing new (or in this case a decade old framework).
We don't know how these decisions are made, who is making them, or more importantly, why they're being made. And attributing all of that to the developers being monkeys make me think the author has never actually worked for a real company before or is conveniently forgetting what it's like to.