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Comment by nasmorn | Hacker News Reader

The worst offenders are shitty SPAs that have less UI responsiveness than a good old school app. They are simply built because the new devs don’t know anything else. My favorite is Circle CI where they don’t even rate Limit the run button and the response from the server takes 5s. It’s the worst of all worlds

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Not sure if it is still the case, but Circle used Clojure/Om [1]... when I heard them say they did that so many years ago, I knew right away it would end up being something nobody wanted to work on.

Sure enough, just checked, Om was abandoned [2] and the person blogging about how great everything was is long gone [3]. This is the absolute definition of tech debt.

[1] https://circleci.com/blog/how-circleci-processes-4-5-million...

[2] https://github.com/omcljs/om

[3] https://circleci.com/blog/why-we-use-om-and-why-were-excited...

If the project is completely abandoned, sounds more like tech bankruptcy rather than tech debt.

> and the person blogging about how great everything was is long gone

Umm, she left CircleCI last year after a 6-year stint. That's not exactly 'long gone'.

I'm not sure what's the point you're making?

It seems like their UI is using next.js now and apparently it still has issues as per OP complaining about the run button behavior.

Frontend frameworks often get abandoned: jQuery, backbone, ember, angular, etc.

Seems to just be how things goes on the front end. This plagues not only the web, desktop and mobile frontend frameworks also all seem to come and go.

Don't quote me on that, but I believe Om was superseded by Om.Next and now Fulcro? So not exactly abandoned, just evolved?

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