What are your programming hot takes?

https://lemmy.ml/post/4216382

What are your programming hot takes? - Lemmy

Most frameworks are garbage and most programmers that use them have no idea how they work.
It drives me nuts when someone on SO asked a question about JS and all the answers use jQuery. It’s not as much of an issue these days, but for a while it was almost every post. I really questioned if people knew the difference.
This isn’t limited to JS. Too many times have I seen someone ask a question of how to do XYZ in language ABC where most of the replies were some form of “Just use this library bro” while not actually answering the question. And usually the library that’s being suggested is some big monolith that implements a ton of shit that no one really uses.

Yeah. In my case I don’t have the option to install random libraries, so those replies aren’t helpful.

It’s fine to call out a library that can make things easier, for those who can use it, but it can’t be the only solution.