Welcome to the web side. Everything’s bonkers. Hard-earned software engineering truths get tossed out, because hey, wtf, I’ll just do some stuff and yippee. Feels like everyone’s stuck at year three of software engineering, and every three years the people get swapped out.

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jiggawatts 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

> every three years the people get swapped out

That's because they are being "replaced", in a sense!

When an industry doubles every 5 years like web dev was for a long time, that by the mathematical definition means that the average developer has 5 years or less experience. Sure, the old guard eventually get to 10 or 15 years of experience, but they're simply outnumbered by an exponentially growing influx of total neophytes.

Hence the childish attitude and behaviour with everything to do with JavaScript.

	▲	metafunctor 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Good point! The web is going through its own endless September. And so, it seems, is everything else. Perhaps, this commentary adds no value — just old man yells at cloud stuff.

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anonymars 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The web saw "worse is better" and said "hold my beer"