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by KptMarchewa 1033 days ago
> Front-end technologies are not "progressing rapidly", they are thrashing. People are (rightfully) extremely frustrated with the limitations of the tools they have, so they (wrongfully) go off and invent new tools that get around those limitations, while inevitably re-introducing tons of difficulty in whatever the tools they're replacing were developed to avoid. It's just around and around.

I feel this is an obsolete view. React has been on top since what, 2017? It's extremely popular and there's nothing close to it. Now, data world... amount of new technologies there has way overtaken early 10s frontend.
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fqwert 1032 days ago
> I feel this is an obsolete view. React has been on top since what, 2017?

React is obsolete. Cool kids are now using Svelte or Qwik.

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jakelazaroff 1032 days ago
Just to put things in perspective, here are last week’s NPM download numbers for those three frameworks[1]:

React: 21,879,845

Svelte: 722,312

Qwik: 11,702

[1] https://npmtrends.com/@builder.io/qwik-vs-react-vs-svelte

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ndunas 1031 days ago
I think the hardest part for these new libraries is to build a solid ecosystem around them. React is the king for now and it will take many years to catch up.
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