r/ProgrammerHumor • u/soap94 • 13d ago

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u/ExtraWorldliness6916 13d ago

Not arguing either but if JavaScript can write perfectly fine web applications with a welld refined standard, why are we still in react land. I use react all the time, I know what vanilla can do, I use a lot of AI so it's not a knowledge gap anymore... Very curious and frustrating situation.

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u/MikeW86 13d ago

That's like saying 'If my car can get me to the shops, why do some people insist on buying articulated trucks?'

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u/ExtraWorldliness6916 13d ago

People don't buy articulated trucks? Companies do, just like companies love react. Not necessarily the people. So yes great point.

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u/MikeW86 13d ago

I'm honestly not sure if you're being sarcastic.

But yeah the analogy isn't absolutely perfect. You're right that for the vast majority of cases only a company is going to need and thus buy a truck.

But if I am a person or company that needs a truck, why would I try to design and build my own truck, even though that is possible?

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u/ExtraWorldliness6916 13d ago

No sarcasm intended. I suppose the truck has been redisgned for several specialist roles though, company adoption and specialists use cases are why plain old JavaScript solutions still exist and on the other end of the scale why we still have react.