It is not an exaggeration to say that modern frontend is so enamoured by post-scarcity fairy tales that it is mortgaging the web's future for another round of night drinking at the JavaScript party.
The incompetence prevalent in JavaScript is a common human problem not confined to JavaScript. People generally lack the self-awareness, on even the most superficial level, to measure things. As a result they are doomed to a culture of comforting repetition. To be a 10x developer you don’t have to be a genius software developer, you just have to be so vaguely minutely so self-aware as to stop repeating bad decisions with increasing frequency.
[+] [-] austin-cheney|3 years ago|reply
It is not an exaggeration to say that modern frontend is so enamoured by post-scarcity fairy tales that it is mortgaging the web's future for another round of night drinking at the JavaScript party.
The incompetence prevalent in JavaScript is a common human problem not confined to JavaScript. People generally lack the self-awareness, on even the most superficial level, to measure things. As a result they are doomed to a culture of comforting repetition. To be a 10x developer you don’t have to be a genius software developer, you just have to be so vaguely minutely so self-aware as to stop repeating bad decisions with increasing frequency.