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I have a problem with React and spend a lot of time talking to my therapist

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Re: I have a problem with React and spend a lot of time talking to my therapist

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> Mobile devices simply don't have the CPU and memory to cope well with client-side JS apps.

I think they do, but most client-side JS apps are horribly designed. They load the whole bundle at once, display ads, have setTimeouts and other unnecessary things that add to the bloat.

Native apps aren't great either, I hate the Twitter and Reddit ones, they constantly fail to load stuff, block and restart.

Re: I have a problem with React and spend a lot of time talking to my therapist

#4
I still think React is a wonderful library and feels like a more natural way to express a dynamic web page. Other frameworks get into your face a lot more.

It does seem like a lot of the grievances in this post are about arbitrary choices by the author or the teams using React as part of their stack.

Maybe I'm not attached enough to React that I can understand the problem.

Re: I have a problem with React and spend a lot of time talking to my therapist

#5

Serious, not intended to flame bait question: Why is race/gender featured so prominently in this technical post? Would it be appropriate to open a post with “black men in tech had a twitter meltdown”?

I was wondering that as well. However I am not sure I would call it a technical post. To me it reads more like the rant of a person who hates react because it was written by facebook.

Re: I have a problem with React and spend a lot of time talking to my therapist

#7
Someone wrongly accused a well known React dev of being a white supremacist for things that didn't happen.

Now people are, rightfully, angered about the false accusations, but the accusers use this to say "see, we said you are toxic!"

Guess we gonna have fallout from this bullshit a long time...

Re: I have a problem with React and spend a lot of time talking to my therapist

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Serious, not intended to flame bait question: Why is race/gender featured so prominently in this technical post? Would it be appropriate to open a post with “black men in tech had a twitter meltdown”?

One difference is that "black men in tech" are a minority with a lot of discriminatory experiences. Criticizing a minority you don't belong to for complaining too much is something different than criticizing the majority you do belong to for the same thing.

I don't know about "react-gate" yet, but I'm sure to find out in a few minutes.

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