React/JavaScript fatigue

Post by scope » Mon, Dec 28, 2015, 5:37 AM UTC

addicted wrote: post #35

scope wrote: post #30

there's NO fatigue, it all depends on YOU & how you're willing to LEARN continuously Let's put it like this, there are many ways to build a house, but you don't see a builder without at least hammer & nails right? One day you see another builder with a nail gun, do you ask the builder about the machine or do you keep building a house using JUST hammer & nails? After sometime, you see another builder building a house…

The flaw with this analogy is that when you need to revisit the house you built with a hammer and nails, you can continue using your nail gun. In S/W development, you have to go back to using the hammer and nails (or at the very least have a strong understanding of the hammer and nails). Furthermore, once you've built a house, it's built, and the work you will be doing on it will be minimal. Software development is a…

Post by bpatrianakos » Mon, Dec 28, 2015, 5:39 AM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #42

hoodoof wrote: post #40

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My (simplistic) understanding is that webpack is more simple than grunt and gulp to configure. Backed up by my observation that most of the most current projects seem to be embracing it - that's enough for me, it's the current winner so it's what I use. I don't have time and I'm not interested in doing a detailed technical analysis - my approach is just to try to understand what technologies are the latest - and on t…

This response sums up something important about the Javascript development community that I cannot put into words.

Post by laichzeit0 » Mon, Dec 28, 2015, 5:54 AM UTC

pixie_ wrote: post #70

pbhowmic wrote: post #9

This is something I have observed about every language/framework front end combo I have ever used and I have done it long enough to go all the way back to Qt 3 and even before. There is no terse way to describe a UI. Period. C++ or Java I understand they are typed languages with an avowed aim of giving the programmer fine grained control over the program. Objective C may have become popular more recently but it too i…

The last time I felt productive doing UIs was with WinForms and before that VB6.

Post by lopatin » Mon, Dec 28, 2015, 5:55 AM UTC

jkldotio wrote: post #64

Many of the newer Javascript libraries seem massively over-engineered compared to what you actually gain over using jQuery, or even just plain Javascript. I don't want to detract from the complexity of what some of these frameworks can achieve but at the same time it's not like they are doing complex 3D or machine learning. For me it's about readability and maintainability. I can come back to a program weeks, months…

Post by awolden » Mon, Dec 28, 2015, 6:05 AM UTC

scope wrote: post #71

addicted wrote: post #35

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The flaw with this analogy is that when you need to revisit the house you built with a hammer and nails, you can continue using your nail gun. In S/W development, you have to go back to using the hammer and nails (or at the very least have a strong understanding of the hammer and nails). Furthermore, once you've built a house, it's built, and the work you will be doing on it will be minimal. Software development is a…

> The flaw with this analogy is that when you need to revisit the house you built with a hammer and nails, you can continue using your nail gun. Say clients wanted a kitchen completely remodeled, you still don't have to use hammer and nails or nail gun --- I could easily demolish the kitchen and 3D print the new kitchen What you know/done before doesn't necessarily dictate what you'll [can] do (which is the case on t…