Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
johnallsopp@indieweb.social ("John Allsopp") wrote:
In 2012 I spoke at @ffconf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTqIGKmCqd0
@slightlyoff was in the audience and we spent a long walk after talking about this stuff before React was even created.
Some of us could see this coming *miles* away.
Alex did more than anyone to try and give us an alternative path, with the Extensible Web Manifesto,
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/author/extensible-web-manifesto-team/
and Progressive Web Apps
https://conffab.com/presentation/what-comes-next-for-the-web-platform/?gl=nYv144b3XWseI try not to think about it but it is %^&*ing infuriating the path we went down.
And for what?