[patio11]

This is a curious objection to level against other people doing professional work (which you aren't obligated to consume) for free. Is your life in any way worse because React exists or this dev decided to write some very nice color pickers? If so, doesn't whatever the objection is generalize to "all human activity which doesn't directly benefit me?"

[ts330]

Sorry, you missed the point. My life is better overall because React solves a ton of problems other frameworks are battling with. However, we still have to rewrite this same widgets over and over - energy that may be better spent elsewhere if that were possible. These innovations are not iterative from this point of view - they re-level the field. My point was: "there has got to be a better way of dealing with these basic components"

fwiw, I thought this little project was really cool.

[dpnewman]

I would say they're most likely not rewritten - in the sense that each new one gets to look at and improve upon the predecessors. So they're not starting from scratch and that is leading to better quality I think.

[obilgic]

I don't agree with him at all, but probably it affects his life since now most of the innovation is moved to another framework that he doesn't use.

[baddox]

That's true, just like innovation in AIDS treatment affects me because I am unlikely to get AIDS. It would be so much nicer if those resources were put toward some ailment that is more likely to affect me.

[mhuffman]

Not only this, but when someone graduates school and has to go to work and maintain projects written in a dozen flavor of the month frameworks; no one wins.