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kalterdev | 8 days ago

You can learn JavaScript and code for life. You can’t learn React and code for life.

Yeah, JavaScript is an illusion (to be exact, a concept). But it’s the one that we accept as fundamental. People need fundamentals to rely upon.

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dnlzro|8 days ago

The only reason why you regard JavaScript as “fundamental” is that it’s built into the browser. Sure, you can draw that line, but at least acknowledge that there’s many places to draw the line.

I’d rather make comparative statements, like “JavaScript is more fundamental than React,” which is obviously true. And then we can all just find the level of abstraction that works for us, instead of fighting over what technology is “fundamental.”

kalterdev|6 days ago

I agree and I think it’s a nice explanation that fundamentality (characteristics upon which everything depends or would not be possible) is contextual.

satvikpendem|8 days ago

> You can’t learn React and code for life.

Sure you can, why can't you? Even if it's deprecated in 20 years, you can still run it and use it, fork it even to expand upon it, because it's still JS at the end of the day, which based on your earlier statement you can code for life with.