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Sounds good in theory. Remember this industry is full of hype and fad. Software developers like brand name like everyone else in other industry. Inferior tech coming from FAANG is going to be adopted faster than superior tech coming from a genius developer, with a lot of excuse e.g. "backed by big corp"

I would say these claimed nerds are very irrational especially those who only consume and barely create and sell software.

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> Sounds good in theory. Remember this industry is full of hype and fad. Software developers like brand name like everyone else in other industry.

React, reactive, server-side rendering. software is a fashion industry.

This industry needs some ways to wire up, at least correlation between profitable business that imply some usefulness people willing to pay for, and tech stack they are using. Like real engineering cost/benefit calculation.

"server-side rendering" nowadays only means "Nodejs server", there's nothing conceptually server-side paradigm.

If it was easy to market to developers we wouldn't use free tools and software. Instead everyone would push for the heavily marketed expensive proprietary tools, compilers, languages etc, just like most other groups. Business managers mostly use proprietary tools you have to pay for, artists mostly use proprietary tools you have to pay for etc. Developers don't, not because people haven't tried to sell expensive tools to developers or because developers can't afford it but because it is hard to do so.

I agree that developers are irrational as a group, but they aren't easily manipulated via marketing or companies would abuse that to sell them crap.

They bought crap many times, fortunately there's not much of million dollars damage like the old day, they can cancel $50/mo SaaS any time.

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