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by ben_w 311 days ago
It's not just that. I've seen plenty of technical talks where people are showing off (and a few jobs where we were required to use) stuff that's several layers of abstraction more complex than it needs to be.

Right now, I'm converting some C++ game code that is very obviously originally meant for a 68k mac (with resource forks etc.) into vanilla JS. It's marginally easier to work with than SwiftUI + VIPER, and I'm saying that as someone who has been working on iOS apps since the first retina iPod came out and has only 14 months experience of C++ and perhaps about that, perhaps a bit less than that, total experience of JS since getting one of those "lean foo in 24 hours" books from WHSmith using pocket money in the late 90s.