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by tobr 82 days ago
Your argument that it’s a shallow argument is itself a shallow argument. ”I hate x” is not a technical argument anyway, it’s an emotional assessment.
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mexicocitinluez 82 days ago
But they're shilling a technical solution not an emotional one.
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usrbinenv 82 days ago
As much as we like to think of ourselves as rational beings, emotions are still a very large part of our decision making process. I didn't build Qite because I hate React, I built it because I knew exactly how I wanted things to work. But I do hate React and it's part of why I knew exactly how I wanted things to work.
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mexicocitinluez 81 days ago
> As much as we like to think of ourselves as rational beings, emotions are still a very large part of our decision making process

And yet, plenty of people all around the world are able to get traction for their products without mentioning the hate of another.

> I didn't build Qite because I hate React,

I get that React being the most popular front-end framework means it's going to get it's fair share of criticism, but it's become pathetic the degree to which people have made hating it their personality. Even going so far as to market their own frameworks in terms of their personal feelings towards it.

Nobody is saying humans aren't emotional, you're trying to deflect from being unable to disconnect your emotions from another library.

It's React Derangement Syndrome.

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austin-cheney 80 days ago
I dislike React because it’s large, slow, and completely unnecessary. If I can write a spa that both 10x faster and 10x smaller without it then why would I bother with React? That isn’t any kind of syndrome. It’s me not wasting my time on vanity bullshit.

I really think autism has a lot to do with the necessity of large frameworks. They provide a vanity layer to hide behind for people who cannot introspect and cannot measure.

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mexicocitinluez 80 days ago
> I dislike React because it’s large, slow, and completely unnecessary.

You're personal opinion is irrelevant to the point I'm making. And that's exactly my point. For whatever reason people can't stop talking about their dislike for it. Going so far as to literally have it be your framework's tagline.

You can't even read a comment about Svelte without their need to bring React up.

> I really think autism has a lot to do with the necessity of large framework

No it's because the needs of the web have dramatically changed in the last 20 years. That's why people reach for things to help them build front-end apps. It's almost comical how different it is.

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