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Seriously. If you like it, use it. If you don't like it, don't use it. If you work with a team, take a vote.

This post spends quite a bit talking about beginners who are learning Javascript, React, and JSX all at once. Of course they aren't going to get it right immediately, if they didn't get tripped up on JSX they'd get tripped up on something else. "Beginners don't get it" might be the weakest argument I've heard so far.

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This is a dangerous opinion and one that weighs the present too heavily over the future.

Pick languages/frameworks that will produce easily maintainable code and will survive naturally after your departure from a company. New developers have a learning curve no matter what. The steeper you make that curve, the more danger you put your codebase in and the more likely you are to set them up to fail.

I agree, a better process than voting would be "evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of each practice and determine which results in the highest quality, most maintainable code."

But since when have we been any good at identifying future needs or identifying maintainable code? Just be consistent, try to at least leave SOME documentation for the next guy, and don't be actively malicious.

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