Alex RussellNov 30, 2024

I've come to understand what's happening in frontend's decade-long failure to deliver decent user experiences as a sort of epistemic closure. I'm calling it "frameworkism", and the epicenter is now React.

Here's a lot of words on why we should all reject it, and what the post-React world should look like:

https://infrequently.org/2024/11/if-not-react-then-what/

If Not React, Then What?

Frameworkism is now the dominant creed of today's frontend discourse, and it's bullshit. We owe it to ourselves and to our users to reject dogma and embrace engineering as a discipline that strives to serve users first and foremost.

Alex Russell
Show threadJosh SimmonsNov 30, 2024
@slightlyoff one downside of the persistent myth that programmers are inherently smart and thus immune to soft issues like feelings and marketing is that there's basically no industry-wide defense against completely meaningless terminology like "modern" being used as a substitute for figuring out whether something is fit for purpose.
Show threadSeth LarsonNov 30, 2024
@dotstdy @slightlyoff This is why I am turned off by projects describing themselves as "modern". I have a years-old note to blog about this in my TODOs tracker...
Show threadmatt wilkie
@sethmlarson
how wonderfully recursively meta...
Nov 30, 2024 at 6:23pmWeb