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by austin-cheney 722 days ago
but what people want is Next.js,

What people? Developers? This is why I will not do that work anymore. Don't assume to know what I want based upon some tool set or tech stack that you find favorable. I hate (HATE HATE) talk of tech stacks, the fantasy of the developer who cannot write original software, who does not measure things, and cannot provide their own test automation. They scream their stupidity for all the world to hear when they start crying about reinventing wheels, or some other empty cliche, instead of just delivering a solution.

What I want is two things:

1. Speed. This is not an assumption of speed. Its the result of various measurements in different execution contexts.

2. Less effort. I want to send a message across a network... and done. In this case you have some form of instruction or data package and then you literally just write that to the socket. That is literally 2 primitive instructions without abstractions like ex: socket.write(JSON.parse(thing));. It is without round trips, without headers, without anything else. You are just done.