I’m sorry but framework and library in this post are going to be used loosely, because even React, Vue, Angular, Svelte, etc devs use the terms loosely.

React is mostly a UI library like you would find in most native app development. Of them all them JS frameworks/libraries is one of the less opinionated and with less batteries included. By design it does not does everything. Most other frameworks do way more.

It lets you define custom components. The components can have properties that their parent component defines and internal state. If the state or the properties change the component gets redrawn (magically). There are some lifetime functionalities (things to do on first render for example) and performance improving stuff (memoization) but mostly that’s it.

All the other features you talk about are third party libraries or frameworks that can operate with react or are build on top of and cover the bases, like routing, fetching, caches, server side rendering, styling utility libraries, component libraries, animation libraries, global state management, etc.

The big difference with the vanilla way is that the approach is mostly declarative. The runtime takes charge of updating the DOM when your components state or properties change.

You take a big performance hit, and an even bigger bundle size one, but the speed of development and huge ecosystem of readymade solutions can be really important for some use cases.

Other frameworks take different approaches to solve the same problems:

• Component system for code reuse and organization.
• Some way to manage state
• Some way to decide what to re-render and when.
• Extra stuff. Some frameworks end here, some have tools for everything you would need for a web app.

I just came back to copilot after the preview ended.

Keeps being pretty good at writing boilerplate, and not that good at much else.

For example when I’m writing a struct like “User” it more or less fills the fields I’m going to need, guesses the types and tags.

In new projects is also pretty good at suggesting things I might want to do. Maybe it gets the implementation wrong, but many times affect what I start working on next.

For the legacy Java code bases I maintain at work is completely useless. Maybe Copilot X can do something to help with that, we’ll see.

As a professional bite-mean-for-other-guy taker (right now in Java) this hurts my feelings.

I know it’s a joke, but it’s an old one and it doesn’t make a lot of sense in this day and age.

Why are you comparing null to numbers? Shouldn’t you be assuring your values are valid first? Why are you using the “cast everything to the type you see fit and compare” operator?

Other languages would simply fail. Once more JavaScript greatest sin is not throwing an exception when you ask it to do things that don’t make sense.

It’s super funny, but if you don’t try to use things as what they are not, the type coercion can’t hurt you.

But if you make a tradition of trying to add empty objects and numbers…

The great sin of JavaScript is gracefully (silently) failing when coders do silly things.

Fellas! Why are games today so buggy! Why are they incomplete? I just don’t understand!!!‽‽???

He is delusional or triying to scare the poor Snoos. If anyone is angry about this and looking for a face to punch they have a clear target and is not some dude with a reddit t-shirt.

They are looking for a suit, no tie, popped up collar wearing, venture capital dudebro looking, jailbait ex-moderating, failure of a CEO.

I think I get were the “server costs” come from. The twitter algorithm they pushed to GitHub FIRST gets a set of like a thousand tweets to show you, then filters them, getting rid of blocked accounts for example. If you use one of the large block lists, you know, to bypass the lack of moderation, there is the “risk” that they neeed to do another request to get enough content to fill your front page of irrelevant stuff you don’t want to see.

Did not even started hahahahaha.

Looked good.

I don’t have to imagine that world, VSCode exists.

I understand the sentiment, but in some way I think you are missing the point. Let me try to explain the appeal.

When you play, for example, Diablo you spend the time with the game making your build. You also play the story and see the bosses but your focus gameplay wise is your build.

Yo go for that skill. You farm that weapon. Yo optimize your buffs and load out.

And when you are done, after 20 or 30 hours… the game becomes extremely easy. Playing your fully builder character has no challenge. And building another is a 20 hour time investment.

So you get into PVP. Or into boss rushes where yo can get marginal improvements. You repeat a very small amount of end game content for months.

Enter the “rogue” mechanics.

The play unit is no longer “the character”, now it is “the run”

You build a full character each run. You make meaningful decisions to make the most of your build with what the game is offering.

If a run goes badly you are 30 min or less away from getting were you were. If you win you can play again for a completely different experience.

You have no complete control about your build, so you can’t really on the same strategy and gameplay for the whole game. You have to engage with every system.

And your reward for playing is choice (more options to better controls your play style) and knowledge (to better use what the game throws at you)

And it’s true you repeat the initial part of the game a lot. But in Diablo (keeping with my previous example) you repeat the endgame. The only diferente is that one is front loaded and the other is back loaded. And initial areas USUALLY have more work put into them in both cases.

Also remember that there are a spectrum between Isaac likes and Hades likes. There are games were chance has lots of importance and a good build in the hands of a bad player can steamroll the game, where in others a bad build in the hands of a great player is viable.

Teslas have their own story of shitty build quality and broken promises. He is cutting corners like crazy in PREMIUM models.

Also Space X just blowed up a launchpad. For no real reason.

Elon’s disregard for the consequences of his actions is not contained in any of his enterprises.

Sometimes there are inefficiencies. Sometimes you can cut features. But it’s a process that takes time, and has repercussions, and limits. The 1$ Billion mark could come from extensive evaluation of the current infrastructure, but it comes from Elon’s vibes and massive incurred debt from the leveraged acquisition.

Elon thinks that he can use office space and not pay for it. He is delusional. And he knows less about cloud services and code than he knows about leases.

Twitter is still online because providers can’t believe THE AUDACITY, and are hopping they will get paid. Let’s see how long they can justify the hole in the books and keep subsidizing Musk’s House of Hate Speech.

The funny thing is, as a business, it was overvalued before the purchase and it’s overvalued right now.

The sad thing is that as a public utility it’s undervalued. But “market forces” place value in pretty stupid things (useless speculative assets) and not in essential ones (open source packages that hold the internet together)

That’s why I have high hopes for open source, standards based, interoperable, federated social media. The people need to have public places. People on the internet need to have public places. No private monopoly can be the owner of the “town square”

Hey! I’m playing Yooka-Laylee, Skyrim and Moonlighter.

I’d really like to get good with FPSs on sticks, but seems to much for me, so I play Deathloop docked.

Thanks! These things are popping like crazy.

I’m only missing ProgrammerHumor tbh.

Open source apps are rare on iOS. But this is not even the app, it’s the backend server. There is literally only one instance. It’s as closed source as most websites.

It was. Sorry 😞

Their death is waaaay overdue. We literally jumped one cycle because the 2008 financial crisis and 0% interest rate.

Now there is no free money, and they need to extract value to seem a good investment, so they canibalize themselves and turn into shit.

Most of Elon stuff is doomed once reality catches on. Same with Uber. Same with streaming platforms. Same with Meta.

Also there is a new/old boy in the bubble and burst town, Microsoft and their AI push. It’s going to destroy them pushing them into overspending to keep up.