Comment by locknitpicker
13 hours ago
> If everyone is using react wrong, react has a design flaw.
You're asserting that everyone is using it wrong. It's your personal opinion, and a baseless one at that which is based on a personal belief that everyone around you is incompetent and incapable of critical reasoning. It's silly posturing.
In the meantime, React is by far the most popular web framework in production. Some surveys list React with a market share of between 60-75% of all web frontend projects. It's so popular that it even leaked into GUI programming with native GUI toolkits.
It's rather obvious that assertions such as yours are detached from reality. Naturally the dominant framework will also dominate the number of newbies taking their first steps as well as drive-bys. It's also natural that the dominant framework will be targeted by the "aktually" crowd, invested in contrarian self-promotioj comments instead of doing anything constructive.
But to assume everyone is incapable of using something... That takes a lot of self delusion.
> based on a personal belief that everyone around you is incompetent and incapable of critical reasoning.
This is all news to me. I don’t think any of that. Do you make a habit of writing fanfic about other people? You also seem upset that I used word “everyone”. I thought my exaggeration was obvious. How embarrassing for us both.
If you want to make any technical arguments in support of react, I’m all ears. The only argument I can find in your comment is that react is popular right now. But that doesn’t mean react can’t be improved upon. Jquery was once that popular. Then react displaced it, by being better. Soon react will be displaced in turn, by a library which addresses react’s flaws. I can’t wait.
> This is all news to me. I don’t think any of that. Do you make a habit of writing fanfic about other people?
Pointing out the absurdity of someone like you throwing blanket accusations of incompetence is something that's very specific and verifiable. If you have strong feelings about making broad accusations about whole communities, you should pause and pay attention to what you are saying.
> If you want to make any technical arguments in support of react, I’m all ears.
Would you listen? I mean, the main issue with your post is the way you throw absurd blanket statements about a technology, on how either everyone using it is incompetent or the framework is somehow broken.
I mean, does it even dawn upon you that maybe perhaps throughout the past decade there might be people using the dominant framework well, and happen to know what they are doing?
It seems not, by the way you opt to disregard it and tell yourself no, everyone is either incompetent or the tool is broken.
Do you understand the absurdity of this sort of claim? Because it isn't even about React, but the way you feel it's reasonable to throw such blanket accusations.
> But that doesn’t mean react can’t be improved upon.
But that's not the claim you made, was it? Do you need me to quote you back at you?
"You're asserting that everyone is using it wrong. It's your personal opinion, and a baseless one at that"
Their comment does not assert that. They are responding to someone else's assertion, and turning it around to make a completely different point. It's a common form of argument - "if you're saying that the problem is everyone's getting it wrong, then I disagree and the problem must be something else."
Basically the exact same point that you are using to launch a stream of insults!
Saying that it is "silly", "detached from reality" and "delusional" for making assumptions about folk is the most incredible self-own.