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by mlhpdx 1222 days ago
What makes you think the folks developing CAD/CAE software are so behind (nay, negligent)? No amount of React will solve topology or perform naming and matching (look it up, modern CAD can’t live without it).

A lack of respect for established success is both a superpower (don’t listen to the bozos) and foolishness. Knowing when to use each is what makes some pursuits blossom and others slowly burn out.
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throw_away1525 1221 days ago
Not talking about CAD/CAE, that's not my expertise at all. I'm specifically talking about chemical process simulation.

And React obviously gets used for the GUI instead of something like Delphi. As I said, for the business logic, there are amazing new languages available like Julia that allow devs to iterate significantly faster than in C++.

I guess I made a bit of a leap of faith assuming that it's just as bad in the other engineering disciplines.

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