Comment by thih9
2 hours ago
We’ve already lived through multiple floods of unmaintainable code, eg with unstructured JQuery.
New tech stacks will appear and they will handle the mess to some extent.
2 hours ago
We’ve already lived through multiple floods of unmaintainable code, eg with unstructured JQuery.
New tech stacks will appear and they will handle the mess to some extent.
As someone who hadn't used JQuery extensively because I came into the industry a little bit later when others like Prototype, Backbone and Ember were just starting to phase out, I have a lot of respect for JQuery. Or perhaps I have a lot of respect for the problems that JQuery solved which we now take for granted, like AJAX requests.
With this and the pipe dream of continuous generation and deployment of code without a human in the loop, I can't even think of a problem it's solving or attempting to solve. The closest thing I can think of is library or language upgrades... but we already have automated solutions for those e.g. codemods and migration scripts.