[stevemadere]

This is truly terrible.

What happened to a new JS front end library every week?

If this keeps up, we won't get to completely throw away all of our old code and retool every two years (the way we've been operating for the last 20 years)

How will we ever spend 85% of our time spinning up on new js front end libraries?

And don't even get me started on the back end.

If AI had been around in 2010, we probably still have some people writing apps in Rails.

OMG what a disaster that would be.

It's a good thing we just completely threw away all of the work that went into all of those gems. If people had continued using them, we wouldn't have had the chance to completely rewrite all of them in node and python from scratch.

[halfmatthalfcat]

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[dang]

Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[halfmatthalfcat]

My bad dang

[alfalfasprout]

This website is mostly full of very junior developers that just click on articles they think "sound smart" or are a hot take they agree with.

Don't get me wrong, it's also one of the few places where you find experts from all sorts of industry mingling. But the quality of commentary on HN has plummeted in the last 10 years.

[dang]

"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." It's reliably a marker of bad comments and worse threads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[wruza]

As if web/css wasn't a new gui library no one asked for. Peak programming was VB6 & Delphi 6 (maybe 7). Everything after that was just treading water in increasingly degenerate ways.

[mouse_]

Eh. Web is the best write-once-run-everywhere we've achieved so far, especially with the proliferation of WASM. I'd be lying if I said it was perfect, but it's better than Java.

[mrguyorama]

>Web is the best write-once-run-everywhere we've achieved so far,

Web for a decade or more now has been "Rewrite a hundred times, run only in chrome"

[beepbooptheory]

The implication here that AI itself does not come with its own churn and needless wheel spinning feels a little out of touch with our current reality.

[beej71]

PHP everywhere?

[Me000]

Some real revisionist history as Rails cribbed most of those gems from Python. Now Python just rebranded for web and its doing everything Rails does and more.

[dehrmann]

New JS frameworks every week stopped around the time React became popular.

[whoknowsidont]

>What happened to a new JS front end library every week?

Yeah I don't think this ever happened.