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Oh please... this is not nearly the case anytime recent. If anything, new CS grads are more prone to reinvent some solution from scratch than to reuse existing solutions.

The main issues are that browser tech has advanced rapidly and is/was a non-homogeneous runtime environment. Also JS eco is built from OSS by an enormous pool of developers.

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There is a difference between implementing a reinventing a new solution with knowledge of the past mistakes that prevents those mistakes from occurring again and a new solution without knowledge of the past mistakes, which leads to those mistakes being repeated again. In my observation, the JS community tends to go towards the latter.

Could you share some examples of these failures please?

The community as a whole has the kind of immaturity that leads to repeated and terrifying security incidents, for one.

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