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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The (narrowly defined) success of React spawned many imitators that rolled out the same playbook: active denial and suppression of critical engineering discussion, heavy marketing, and bloated, slow products in their wake (looking at you, Apollo). That this axis of untruth has condensed into Next.js and marketing by Vercel about speed should teach us a lot of lessons; one that I take now is that lies spread without active opposition, and that I was too quiet. I knew better; and yet.