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by zdragnar
2112 days ago
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They are still around because, through historical accident, they are what everyone knows and uses. Making a special snowflake that fits your brain better is good for you, but not necessarily anyone else. Making something good for everyone will, almost inevitably, become a design-by-committee monstrosity that is as problematic as the tool being replaced. The truth is, I am skeptical that these tools can be replaced by something that requires no effort to learn. At least, for the tools we already have, if you dont want to learn them, you can roll the dice and copy / paste from google overflow. |
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Yes, and that's why the parent's argument that "you can hack it together in any fashion you damn well please, and you can use it to build peer-grade native applications, typically with little more than a tip of the hat as 'overhead'" is not a convincing argument. Yes, you can learn a lot about it and tinker with it and "harness its power", as opposed to using something that's less flexible, but is already pretty damn ergonomical, and is much more accessible and easy to learn about (maybe to the point you're not even realizing you're learning).