It's amazing how far you can come in the software industry now without possessing even a general understanding of how computers work.
Wait until all those „know it all learned on chatgpt cannot google” come to the job market.
React has become the 'Linux kernel' of modern software development
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Re: React has become the 'Linux kernel' of modern software development
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Some react devs literally don't even know that HTML can be rendered server side. Sadly, many do. Only later do they realize it is orders of magnitude slower than rendering a template and more cpu intensive. Combine that with the fact that node.js prefers to have an IO heavy workload, but instead we get a cpu heavy one. React is fine, but SSR has a long way to go before it is “good”.
"Server-side-rendering" confused me for ages because I figured it must be some new fancy tech instead of 'what PHP has done from the beginning'. SSR isn't actually rendering anything of course.
In the context of React it makes sense, as traditionally it's a client-side rendering thing. Until recently, a redundant render would run in the client once the js is loaded anyway, but I believe it's possible to skip that now.
Re: React has become the 'Linux kernel' of modern software development
#13No, the Linux kernel is the Linux kernel of software development.
Re: React has become the 'Linux kernel' of modern software development
#14X fka. Twitter: the garbage collector for minds.
Re: React has become the 'Linux kernel' of modern software development
#15This may be the worst analogy that I've ever heard in my life. Does this guy run a web hosting company or something? The Linux kernel runs operating systems and actual hardware. React is used to display some check boxes and charts on the screen. Like it is not even close. Goes to show how little web devs in general understand software that they make tweets like these.
My bar for web dev's on Twitter is very low for this reason.
I'd almost argue this is a ragebait post and shouldn't be on HN, but I don't know if I'm the only one