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by joeatwork 716 days ago
Software tools backed by businesses that target enterprises have very strong pressures towards obscurity, complexity, and generally optimizing for institutional goals and away from development experience and effectiveness. As tools that get developer adoption move up market they get worse and worse for the folks building with them.
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This is a good reminder of how thankful we should be for the many contributors to Free software.
Here we also have the ensittification on top, as Vercel starts to squeeze out platform profits.
I wonder wether it is possible to keep on the right (dev) track? One could argue that when becomes shit, sooner or later it is going to be abandoned at the end