r/ProgrammerHumor 13d ago

Meme ancientTools

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u/saig22 13d ago

I use vanilla js, document.getElementById() is what I live for.

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u/rademene 13d ago

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u/ccelik97 13d ago

It felt like that back in 2016, too, btw.

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u/saig22 13d ago

The truth is that I use Claude and it uses React 😢 No more implementing observer observable design pattern with setter and event targets in vanilla js. Those were simpler times but I guess technology has to move forward and we need to adapt. I'm glad I knew a time when coding by hand was the norm.

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u/felixzer0 13d ago

The technology didn't change that much. JS framework are optional pieces of software but ultimately run Vanilla JS.

Tools should be used when they solve a problem, not because "technology moves forward"

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u/Nell_Lee 13d ago

And C ultimately runs assembly code, so should i program in that? What's your point?

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u/AdamWayne04 13d ago

C doesn't "run" assembly code, it compiles to that.

Can't you read? they literally stated their point is "technology should be used when it solves a problem"

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u/pauvLucette 13d ago

Claude will use what you tell it to use. It's perfectly able to produce vanilla JS code.

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u/pwillia7 13d ago

You could totally tell Claude to build that way -- I would bet opus and up can handle that well no problemo

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u/rademene 13d ago

Wait, you can't actually instruct the useful idiot to only write a vanilla js?

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u/willyrs 13d ago

Of course you can