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That's reaching - you know full well I wasn't talking about distros like Ubuntu, hence the 'no one has heard of' part.
> Sure they are. At least the GP openly recognises that they might be projecting.
Projecting their l33tness, which literally no one cares about or wants to here. Simplicity is better, there is nothing inferior about something being simple.
Not all of them run OS X, but yep - the devices are reliable, last for a very long time and do the job well.
> Yeah, because there's absolutely no status signalling with Apple products.
Most people I know with iPhones are just regular people. I used to be an Android user (and will never hate on it) but most Western tech people with them are like the poster above - smug with an unfounded sense of superiority.
For example nearly every developer I know uses a Macbook Pro - they aren't "technically inept" (that's quite arrogant btw), they are just more interested in getting stuff done as opposed to spending 10 hours setting up a Linux distro no one has heard of just to make themselves feel l33t...
Most questions asked these days are duplicates, syntax errors or are answered in the relevant online documentation - I really think there should be online courses on 'How to find the right thing to search for' because it would help newbies so much, and prevent them from having to interact with the mean/rude side of StackOverflow (which is proving hard to get rid of despite all the initiatives).
If it was purely about numbers, I'd attempt to support to Opera Mini and it's 300 million users. But I don't, and I've never met anyone who does, yet some people bring up IE10 support on a React-driven, Mobile-first web app to appease managers who have always wanted support for older versions of IE "just because". Unless the clients are government/big bank I can't really see any justification for supporting them (and no one supports IE8 - even though it has double the usage IE10 has).
"..technology that was released just 4 years ago" - if you haven't been keeping up with the news on IE10 then... yeah
"I'd dismiss them for the attitude that their solution solves all the problems without considering potential drawbacks." - no one said there weren't any drawbacks, just when compared with old bad-practice hacks.
"but are very difficult to work with. Not someone I want on my team." - it sounds like the kind of people who're using react would be sad about that.
This post is evidently about junior developers, just because something is old/established doesn't make it right or that it shouldn't be questioned, because there's usually a better way.
When isn't it? If you're developing for old (now unsupported) versions of Internet Explorer I'm not sure they'd be bothered about being turned down (unless they knew about that when applying). Just because something was done some way once doesn't make it right, and putting emphasis on 'clearing float' questions would show your company use old, bad practices.
Why? I haven't needed to use floats at all since moving to flexbox.
"All of the syntactic sugar stuff changes the look and feel of the language too much for my tastes."
I think it brings it into line with how the language is being used in production these days. Modules, generators etc make the language more beautiful, powerful and easier to maintain.
Bro culture?
In this case I'd argue it would be better for non-programmers to learn JavaScript before a language which compiles to it.