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> A central point of REST is that any resource (e.g., user) can support an unlimited number of different representations. This isn't just true on the level of, say, XML vs. JSON bu…

You can definitely shape the data in any way you want with REST. You can find parallels with GraphQL features and REST and you can argue for either way because its 1:1 comparison. …

GraphQL APIs that are public will usually have a less than optimal dev experience because it has to consider general and unknown use cases. GraphQL shines when you control the API …

Then that's a problem with the schema implementation and not necessarily a fault of GraphQL. The people implementing a GraphQL schema should be working very closely with the people…

Not going to lie, before I visited the site, I was hoping it was a hot take article about why Ruby on Rails now suck and people should stop using it and migrate off of it. I was re…

I don't get how "layers and layers of abstraction/concepts that are hard to grasp for a newcomer" is your critique here? The literal entirety of tech is layers and layers of abstra…

You don't need something like React for building rich GUI today but once you have a sufficiently large codebase and a large team of developers, you're going to end up building infe…

Why?

Of course. I didn't say Next.js solves the complexity of building a massive product, no framework will prevent complexity at scale. That's my point since this thread seems to put R…

Over-engineering is not exclusive to the JS world. It's just in the spotlight nowadays. Rails also just hides its magic well because of Ruby and most experienced devs are already u…

Eh. Perhaps you're looking through rose colored glasses on the days of Rails dominance? I've worked at multiple companies using Rails and not one was simple. Especially when you ha…

Your advice is pretty good but it only really applies to junior level roles. If you’re applying for mid level up and the only relevant experience you have for the role is a github …

Not a single interview? That’s got to be a incredible amount bad luck because it’s a pretty hot market right now for SWE. Like I’m a high school dropout who also doesn’t have an ac…

Interesting tone of discussions happening in here compared to the same post in reddit.com/r/programming. The comments in reddit seem to be geared toward how this isn’t a replacemen…

Isn't this the same company whose CEO said he wouldn't hire anybody with a resume that had "short stints"

Sure, but that’s a terrible experience. Especially for a language marketing itself as simple. And just because you can “go-to-definition” to see where the dep is stored, it doesn’t…

IMO I think that section in the docs is missing quite a bit of things when it comes to module resolution. I had the same issue when learning Go. It was quite confusing trying to fi…

Jesus christ that background is distracting.

Wow. What a very diverse set of founders

Great read. HN and reddit comments like the post title always irks me whenever a product is talked about in here or in reddit.