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We’ve already lived through multiple floods of unmaintainable code, eg with unstructured JQuery.

New tech stacks will appear and they will handle the mess to some extent.

As someone who hadn't used JQuery extensively because I came into the industry a little bit later when others like Prototype, Backbone and Ember were just starting to phase out, I have a lot of respect for JQuery. Or perhaps I have a lot of respect for the problems that JQuery solved which we now take for granted, like AJAX requests.

With this and the pipe dream of continuous generation and deployment of code without a human in the loop, I can't even think of a problem it's solving or attempting to solve. The closest thing I can think of is library or language upgrades... but we already have automated solutions for those e.g. codemods and migration scripts.

jQuery is still used by approximately 7.78 million of the top 10 million websites. That's 77%.

React has about 3 to 4% of the top 10 million.

jQuery is still used by approximately 7.78 million of the top 10 million websites. The people touting "modern frameworks" are in a niche and they don't even realize it.

Cherry picked usage stats are off topic. The fact that 90% of Fortune 500 companies rely on COBOL[1] doesn’t make other languages a niche.

[1]: https://www.rocketsoftware.com/en-us/insights/what-is-cobol

>The fact that 90% of Fortune 500 companies rely on COBOL[1] doesn’t make other languages a niche.

Well that's some cherry picking. And really off-topic, because nobody here mentioned COBOL.

If someone were shitting on COBOL here, it would be right to point out that COBOL is still getting the job done at 90% of fortune 500 companies.

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