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Anything "smart". Can't avoid TVs unfortunately. Electric vehicles. I don't have a problem with the concept but similar to the above, you can be held hostage with a change in software. And the second hand market is a joke. Nearly all web frameworks, especially for app development. All social media, cryptocurrency, and most tech pushed by big tech to general consumers.
- shorts / TikTok
- Instagram / X / Facebook etc.
- the Apple ecosystem
- TV
- tablets
Earlier quoted context omitted.
React and similar frameworks are for the developer, not the user. But since it seems you don't use large scale UI based applications, you don't see a need for them.
React and similar frameworks are more for the employer than the developer. A capable developer can execute without them, but employers need them to vastly widen candidate selection without investing in training.
1) Whenever we do an analysis of which codebase to use for a new project, RN gets cut off early for multiple reasons. What's the advantage? KMP allows native-level control. Flutter/Dart was built from the ground up for mobile and multiplatform.
2) Whenever I ask someone who went with React Native, the answer tends to follow along the lines of, "I don't want to learn another language"/"It's the easiest"/"It's made by FAANG." There's some defensiveness, like "React Native can do squircles!" There's a lack of awareness of other platforms, "I can see my results immediately when modifying code with RN!"
More questioning pushes me further away. It's like the only advantage is it lets web people make apps.
3) All the darlings of RN seem to have dropped it slowly - Airbnb, Meta. I'm not a big fan of PWA apps either but at least Meta uses them to good effect.
4) Related to (2), but nearly all the RN jobs seem to pay less, and treat mobile as a cost center than profit center.
Happy to be convinced otherwise. It's on the list, but it feels like low ROI.
Anything "smart". Can't avoid TVs unfortunately. Electric vehicles. I don't have a problem with the concept but similar to the above, you can be held hostage with a change in software. And the second hand market is a joke. Nearly all web frameworks, especially for app development. All social media, cryptocurrency, and most tech pushed by big tech to general consumers.
IoT. I have no interest in home appliances with fancy screen, internet connectivity, apps, and any of that other nonsense. I’m also pretty skeptical of the whole smart home market. A lot of it seems like technology in search of a problem… and it also seems very buggy.
1) The power cuts out frequently and the autogate can't be manually opened. There's a battery and a switch that opens it but if the power is out for a few hours, I can't go home.
2) We have lights that trigger when the alarm rings. We can't turn off the button or it won't work. There's some glitch with many of them where the neighbor's lights burn out faster. Some of the neighbors just removed them as there's little benefit.
3) Smart lights are a little burden on the router, especially without a hub. Tàoo many and things start glitching. The best ones end up being a kind of mesh, which is why they're so expensive.
4) Our smart door isn't properly waterproof. Rain and humidity makes the fingerprint sensor glitch out. While we can open it with a key or card, the whole purpose is not bringing one. One alternative is using the free app that unlocks the door, but it means I have to watch an ad if I go home.
I never really got into JS front-end frameworks. The sheer complexity, and the idea of maintaining essentially 2 apps as a solo dev, never really appealed to me. The furthest I got into JS world was tinkering with Rails' Stimulus framework.
I've been running small SaaS businesses since 2019 with varying degrees of success (currently running a profitable one). I never really got into JS front-end frameworks. The sheer complexity, and the idea of maintaining essentially 2 apps as a solo dev, never really appealed to me. The furthest I got into JS world was tinkering with Rails' Stimulus framework. https://stimulus.hotwired.dev/