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No the meme is frontend changes too much not JavaScript changes too much and that meme is still relevant and will be relevant for a while.

Heck you can argue for how HTML and JavaScript are 20 years old!! Wow that means front end hasn't changed at all for 20b years! Come on man.

Anyway my overall point wasn't even about what's changed. My point is that these are all awkward apis to use to develop a windows style UI.

Even if you think they are old, these frameworks are bending and adjusting an underlying layer to do something it wasn't designed to do in the first place. Hence the awkwardness.

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I'd be happy to discuss specific changes in good faith, but "Wow that means front end hasn't changed at all for 20b years!" is a gross misrepresentation and dismissal of my arguments.

I will maintain that the pace of change is not the same as you portray. Definitely not when it comes to professional frontend developers working in the industry. Blog-oriented-development or experimental niche frameworks that reach top of HN don't count as "industry" yet.

It's not a gross misinterpretation. I'm sorry, but a huge portion of the evidence you've stated was simply the ages of certain technologies and using that as invalid evidence for your arguments. I've clearly presented evidence to the contrary and you simply call it a gross misinterpretation without even providing a counter argument?

Your job is to prove why ages of technologies is relevant to your argument. If it's not then the only thing you can do is admit how that part of your argument is fucking baseless. You may be happy to discuss other things with me but until you admit or prove me wrong on this point there is zero further discussion about anything. Just walking up to someone and telling them they're wrong is useless. When you say gross expectation I expect some evidence to back that shit up. If not then you can just leave.

That being said I don't think I'm in the mood discuss anything with you. Let me be clear, any response you make to me after this will be illogical because I won't care for it or respond and it will be a complete waste of your time. We are done.

My point was simply that the technologies we use are established, and haven't changed much. The age matters, because the current dominant players have been dominant for longer than jQuery was at the top.

Your counterpoint was instead that React changed a lot, but I counter argued. You are free to disagree with that, of course, but instead chose to answer with "Come on man!!"...

I understand that it might seem overwhelming to see lots of "new things" here at HN and other sites, but the reality is that those things are pet projects or new incumbents that haven't been adopted at large by the industry, if at all. In reality, movement in frontend has been slower after 2015 than it was in the 10 years before.

And sorry but you can't preemptively call my response illogical. This is not cool.

Hey I'm not reading your response. As I said, I don't want to talk with you, so you are wasting your time irrationally talking to me. This conversation is over. Please leave.

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