Ask HN: Anyone else notice that HN isn’t full of JavaScript frameworks lately?

Post by Alifatisk » Wed, Jul 19, 2023, 1:13 PM UTC

the_lonely_road wrote: post #40

smrtinsert wrote: post #33

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Lots of political opinion posts. There seems to be an influx of non technical people posting culture war nonsense.

As the site grows the number of people interested in any specific tech gets smaller while the number of people interested in lifestyle posts (politics being a major category of those) grows. Ruby and or Rust specific posts get much less upvotes and lifestyle posts get much more upvotes and the frontpage with its limited real estate becomes less and less specific tech related. The problem will only continue to get wor…

Post by Alifatisk » Wed, Jul 19, 2023, 1:18 PM UTC

whynotmaybe wrote: post #48

ramesh31 wrote: post #19

React won. Angular is officially deprecated, and the others are distant also-rans at this point. React Native has also almost completely taken over iOS development. Thank god we can all just agree on a baseline to work from finally.

Which angular?

Post by austin-cheney » Wed, Jul 19, 2023, 1:29 PM UTC

jrajav wrote: post #10

React is now the de facto choice and much less painful than past de facto choices, is my take on why. It has a mature and healthy ecosystem, and its relatively small surface makes it easy to learn and predictable, while declarative GUI in general is low on footguns compared to ye ol two-way data binding. Many of the competitors springing up define themselves in terms of React, either as an improvement or a foil. But…

Post by SkyPuncher » Wed, Jul 19, 2023, 1:35 PM UTC

austin-cheney wrote: post #95

jrajav wrote: post #10

React is now the de facto choice and much less painful than past de facto choices, is my take on why. It has a mature and healthy ecosystem, and its relatively small surface makes it easy to learn and predictable, while declarative GUI in general is low on footguns compared to ye ol two-way data binding. Many of the competitors springing up define themselves in terms of React, either as an improvement or a foil. But…

I remember hearing exactly the same words about jQuery a decade ago. This is bias stacked on comfort using a bandwagon mythology as a qualifier.

Post by dormento » Wed, Jul 19, 2023, 2:22 PM UTC

dylan604 wrote: post #72

steve_adams_86 wrote: post #70

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> JS framework written in Rust This isn't far from reality these days

That's what makes jokes/conspiracies/lies/memes so compelling. Not that my comment was any of the above including compelling