React has become the 'Linux kernel' of modern software development

[ilrwbwrkhv]

This may be the worst analogy that I've ever heard in my life.

Does this guy run a web hosting company or something?

The Linux kernel runs operating systems and actual hardware.

React is used to display some check boxes and charts on the screen.

Like it is not even close.

Goes to show how little web devs in general understand software that they make tweets like these.

[ramon156]

My bar for web dev's on Twitter is very low for this reason.

I'd almost argue this is a ragebait post and shouldn't be on HN, but I don't know if I'm the only one

[bigfatkitten]

It's amazing how far you can come in the software industry now without possessing even a general understanding of how computers work.

[sgarland]

What’s worse is some of them become “infra engineers.”

Needing to explain to someone in that field why the underlying hardware for the K8s node hosting an extremely memory-bandwidth-intensive app does matter, actually, is painful.

It’s about on par with needing to explain B+trees to devs, and realizing they still aren’t making the connection to their queries being slow.

[rad_gruchalski]

Wait until all those „know it all learned on chatgpt cannot google” come to the job market.

[hmmokidk]

If you have any brain cells left please avoid the link as they will want to seppuku

[andrewfromx]

wow. this is very true and I never thought it that way before. I'm an old school ruby on rails web app dev and I never liked the one main div and then DOM manipulation on the same page for every click. Some react devs literally don't even know that HTML can be rendered server side.

[hermanradtke]

> Some react devs literally don't even know that HTML can be rendered server side.

Sadly, many do. Only later do they realize it is orders of magnitude slower than rendering a template and more cpu intensive. Combine that with the fact that node.js prefers to have an IO heavy workload, but instead we get a cpu heavy one.

React is fine, but SSR has a long way to go before it is “good”.

[jsheard]

The CEO of webshit believes modern software development is synonymous with webshit. Quelle surprise.

[musicale]

No, the Linux kernel is the Linux kernel of software development.

[GuestFAUniverse]

X fka. Twitter: the garbage collector for minds.