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We are running out of nouns to name js frameworks.
I used to troll my old housemate (web frontend guy) by saying something along the lines of "Oh, Node.JS? Yeah some people I work with use that, but they're mostly moving over to Pangolin with Clamp on the backend." (substituting Pangolin and Clamp for any other nouns) I don't think he ever caught on.
SPA:s are now being overused for no particular reason, particularly by junior talents, who by now have been taught this is the one and only way to build Professional™ web sites. The Javascript frontend scene almost literally exploded, in various ways. Webasm got some serious traction. Old serious people like this, becuase it may eventually allow them to avoid the increasingly crazy javascript scene. Computer vision (…
Python is pretty performant if you're comparing it to Ruby. ;-) Python/Django is a great choice for line-of-business/workflow applications where you have dozens or hundreds of users. If you're trying to be "web scale", then Java or Go are probably better choices.
FWIW, neither Python or Ruby are speed kings, but I think that you'll find ruby is on par, or faster than Python in many benchmarks. It is Rails that is renowned for its slowness.
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Ha! I realized this yesterday after considering it (very briefly) for a home lab deployment—I’m pretty sure I dodged a cannonball on that one.
Docker-compose with nginx-proxy should work well for home labs.
I think React is "winning" the framework competition, if we're judging from number of jobs. It seems like a business decision for many people - React can make websites and apps, and it's probably easier. I haven't had enough experience to say, but it seems like Java; not necessarily the best tool, but something easy to hire for. Flutter is also coming in hard on mobile. Also not something I've had enough experience t…
Dumb question but how is react better than jquery? (Im from 2010 instead of 2017 like op)
Long answer is that they don't do the same thing. I think jQuery was an incredibly clever and durable library and became so ubiquitous that most of it's most valuable features got folded into the JavaScript and CSS standards and no longer require dependency on a library. React is a modern way of structuring components. It's a fresh learning curve, but it's actually pretty intuitive and very useful.
Probably the most surprising thing for you: Go is getting generics. No exact timeline, but it's happening for Go 2.0. Rust is seeing production use in many places and its being accepted more as the sane alternative to C for modern development of high performance software. Ecosystem still not big or mature enough to make big waves, however, but that depends on how you interpret "big waves". SPAs are used and abused, t…
Casually job hunting right now, and it is insane how much React has won to me. Like I knew it was popular, but it seems like it has an outright monopoly with the remaining 5% of market share being split among all the other alternatives.
I don't know what the actual market shares are, but when looking at open positions around the US from coast to coast, it seems to have won.
Also, everyone has given up on chatbots. Voice assistants are increasing in penetration, but they're just defaulting to transactional modes and not conversational.
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This seems like an answer from someone who filters the industry through Hacker News. Java's market share is still huge. Clojure never really had a big market share and Ruby is still very popular.
Honest question: Is Ruby (significantly) more popular than Clojure?
If you're still suspicious of SPAs, you can be sure there's still an alternate universe outside of the Valley bubble that builds server-side web apps on modern frameworks, though now we use Vue.js instead of jQuery. PHP has continued to be a top language of choice for the working class dev, and Laravel is an example of one of the most beautifully crafted (and wildly popular) web frameworks ever made. Examples of the…
What an incredibly strange framing.