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Who here wants to work on a minimally-maintained PHP project from 2011?

Nobody?

In 10 years from now, this JavaScript crap will be just like that PHP project is perceived today. Except it will be much worse, because the PHP project didn’t have dependency hell like this. At least the PHP project wasn’t also your phone app.

Re: Interview with Senior JavaScript Developer 2024 [video]

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Who here wants to work on a minimally-maintained PHP project from 2011? Nobody? In 10 years from now, this JavaScript crap will be just like that PHP project is perceived today. Except it will be much worse , because the PHP project didn’t have dependency hell like this. At least the PHP project wasn’t also your phone app.

I like to work on old legacy systems from the 00s. They are all relatively simple without too many dependancies. Code is often spaghetti, but its often also not having 20 layers of abstraction. Nowadays code is so damn abstract with layers of enheritance, delegates, messaging etc. Very difficult to understand apart from the makers. Give me old code. I like it.

Re: Interview with Senior JavaScript Developer 2024 [video]

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Who here wants to work on a minimally-maintained PHP project from 2011? Nobody? In 10 years from now, this JavaScript crap will be just like that PHP project is perceived today. Except it will be much worse , because the PHP project didn’t have dependency hell like this. At least the PHP project wasn’t also your phone app.

The future is already here. As a tech lead, consulting for one of my clients, I have to oversee the maintenance of three JS-heavy projects (backend too) that are imploding under their own weight of technical debt. And a good part of that are dependencies.

Re: Interview with Senior JavaScript Developer 2024 [video]

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post #8

Who here wants to work on a minimally-maintained PHP project from 2011? Nobody? In 10 years from now, this JavaScript crap will be just like that PHP project is perceived today. Except it will be much worse , because the PHP project didn’t have dependency hell like this. At least the PHP project wasn’t also your phone app.

The future is already here. As a tech lead, consulting for one of my clients, I have to oversee the maintenance of three JS-heavy projects (backend too) that are imploding under their own weight of technical debt. And a good part of that are dependencies.

It’s like dealing with the old Angular 1 and Meteor projects from 2015

Re: Interview with Senior JavaScript Developer 2024 [video]

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Who here wants to work on a minimally-maintained PHP project from 2011? Nobody? In 10 years from now, this JavaScript crap will be just like that PHP project is perceived today. Except it will be much worse , because the PHP project didn’t have dependency hell like this. At least the PHP project wasn’t also your phone app.

I've worked on one last year. A JS developer was surprised at how fast everything was.
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