React has become the 'Linux kernel' of modern software development (opens in new tab)

(twitter.com)

12 pointsyilugurlu1y ago13 comments

13 comments

ilrwbwrkhv1y ago

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.

ramon1561y ago

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

bigfatkitten1y ago

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

sgarland1y ago

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_gruchalski1y ago

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

hmmokidk1y ago

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

andrewfromx1y ago

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.

hermanradtke1y ago

> 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”.

philipwhiuk1y ago

"Server-side-rendering" confused me for ages because I figured it must be some new fancy tech instead of 'what PHP has done from the beginning'.

SSR isn't actually rendering anything of course.

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jsheard1y ago

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

musicale1y ago

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

GuestFAUniverse1y ago

X fka. Twitter: the garbage collector for minds.

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