r/ProgrammerHumor • u/soap94 • 2d ago

Meme ancientTools

Post image
5.8k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

387 comments sorted by

View all comments

480

u/winter-m00n 2d ago

Probably unpopular opinion, but still better than react and angular. at least you don't need to build your whole site around it. Nor all sites need those heavy frontend framework.

83

u/Nils_Larson 2d ago

I am not arguing against your actual point, but in modern browsers you don’t even need jQuery, because all of it is available natively.
(Kicking in a very open door)

17

u/ExtraWorldliness6916 2d 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.

4

u/MikeW86 2d ago

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

3

u/ExtraWorldliness6916 2d ago

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

4

u/MikeW86 2d 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?

1

u/ExtraWorldliness6916 2d 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.