Post #1222732
2026-04-12 06:58 UTC
@mia Having helped more than a hundred teams convalesce with codebases that are in deep, deep JS-ecosystem-dogma-created trouble, I'm well out of patience for the "but speed!" nonsense. Because it's nonsense.
These teams get *beached* by JS dogma. The frameworks and tools become ends unto themselves, and usability declines to the point that for all the churn, no progress is detectable by mgmt; only a knot so Gordian they fear it, rather than manage it. This is anything *but* going faster.
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@mia@front-end.social 2026-04-12 07:00
@slightlyoff yep that
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@slightlyoff@toot.cafe 2026-04-12 07:00
@mia As I keep telling folks, the claims of "but I can move faster in X" are nearly entirely self-reported trajectories of learning. The same thing you'd get if you really bore down and practiced...IDK...Perl, or whatever. But annecdata is not a controlled study. Extrapolations here, particularly around "DX" have always been statistically flawed to a fatal degree. Unsurvivable doses of marketing radiation everywhere you turn.
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@bp@social.bennypowers.com 2026-04-12 07:08
@slightlyoff @mia Claude renders the dx/cant-not-hire-react argument moot