| ▲ | afavour 4 days ago | |
Wars, battles, personalities on social media… I don’t want to sound too much like a grouchy old man but these frameworks are tools. Nothing more than that. I can’t understand why anyone would become emotionally invested in any of them. When starting a project the right move to examine what best fits your project, not which one was recently victorious in a war. I’ve grown to dislike React because I see it being abused so often for a site where it isn’t necessary. There are plenty of projects where it is necessary too, but that’s not universal. | ||
| ▲ | luckylion 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
> I can’t understand why anyone would become emotionally invested in any of them. I think that's simple: because they are financially invested in them. That's obvious for the developers working on the frameworks themselves or building libraries / plugins / UI-themes for them, but I believe it's also correct for "normal" developers who build things with these frameworks. They know these frameworks and can use them, and they've made an investment in time to get to that point. Likely they're also making at least some of their money _because_ they know these frameworks. Emotional attachment follows the economic attachment, and then you'll get plenty of rationalizations. | ||
| ▲ | bryanrasmussen 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
> I can’t understand why anyone would become emotionally invested in any of them. sure, but I suppose you can observe that they do? And hence >Wars, battles, personalities on social media become reasonable narratives to engage in to describe what is actually happening in the social activities that form around these tools | ||
| ▲ | threatofrain 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
You can ignore all the phrasings of wars or battles or winning and losing, and you can also ignore that social media has consequences. We can agree that frameworks are just tools. And as tools we can coldly think about trends and other meta-facts, including questions on popularity. We don't need to think about popularity in terms of winning or losing either, just numbers that move around so we can use them as predictors of mindshare and career opportunities. And in that sense, the right tool that fits the job often includes an analysis on popularity, especially because the best tool is often one that you and your colleagues already know. | ||