slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The thinkfluencers that sold a JS-first revolution in 2010-13 were *extremely* happy to shit on modest push-back, particularly from the evolving mobile reality. Turns out, they didn't know what they were doing.
In the intervening decade, they've pitched each new pointless abstraction as revolutionary, and quietly stepped back from them as they fail, never admitting error.
They did not know what they were doing; most still don't. Stop taking advice from 3 junior devs in a trench coat.