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   Alex Russell (slightlyoff@toot.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 03:35:15 JST Alex Russell

   I've come to understand what's happening in frontend's decade-long failure to deliver decent user experiences as a sort of epistemic closure. I'm calling it "frameworkism", and the epicenter is now React.

   Here's a lot of words on why we should all reject it, and what the post-React world should look like:

   https://infrequently.org/2024/11/if-not-react-then-what/

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     Josh Simmons (dotstdy@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 03:53:17 JST Josh Simmons

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     @slightlyoff one downside of the persistent myth that programmers are inherently smart and thus immune to soft issues like feelings and marketing is that there's basically no industry-wide defense against completely meaningless terminology like "modern" being used as a substitute for figuring out whether something is fit for purpose.

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