Comment by yipinwong
3 hours ago
You know which one will win for sure. ones with the worst experience.
Vue and svelte are easy to use and learn/adopt. But look what won. React.js.
So whatever the ai agent with the vast user basae will win regardless.
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I know it's a slippery slope, but given you brought up JS framwork analogy, I had to fall into it
It's all about what story you can tell.
Cursor is easily the worst experience I've had with an AI harness, yet it was acquired for billions of dollars in spite of being a middleman tied to a ripoff of VS Code. None of the colleagues of mine who were touting it last year are still using it. But if you can make yourself look like the next big thing, you'll get money thrown at you. Just look at Omarchy.
A good experience necessarily takes time and careful thought. Nobody these days can do that while also remaining relevant, or even surviving.
I mean as someone who was there at the time, early React was easy to learn and adopt. It’s complexity came later after it had already won
Now Angular v1, man… if I ever see another digest loop error in my life, I will scream
So glad I never had to deal with Angular, especially v1. I tried learning it and it just seemed like it would actually make applications more incomprehensible than before. React originally addressed the actual problem that most frameworks mistook for not being that important. I still don't particularly like React, but it makes sense why it became popular.