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by diezge 3795 days ago
"...is the cocky attitude that they never need to bother learning any "old, bad practices." - so before learning ES6 everyone should learn how to use inline onclick events, alerting to debug etc otherwise they're "cocky"?

"..technology that was released just 4 years ago" - if you haven't been keeping up with the news on IE10 then... yeah

"I'd dismiss them for the attitude that their solution solves all the problems without considering potential drawbacks." - no one said there weren't any drawbacks, just when compared with old bad-practice hacks.

"but are very difficult to work with. Not someone I want on my team." - it sounds like the kind of people who're using react would be sad about that.

This post is evidently about junior developers, just because something is old/established doesn't make it right or that it shouldn't be questioned, because there's usually a better way.

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> This post is evidently about junior developers

Hence the "anything but a junior candidate" from my original post.