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Why do software developers love complexity? / Kyrylo Silin
｢ React piles concepts into your mental backpack: rendering models, hooks, state libraries, routing, and a build pipeline. Say no to it, and suddenly you’re the “neckbeard stuck in the ’90s,” outside the cool-kids club ｣
https://kyrylo.org/software/2025/08/21/why-do-software-developers-love-complexity.html
Why do software developers love complexity? / Kyrylo Silin
｢ React piles concepts into your mental backpack: rendering models, hooks, state libraries, routing, and a build pipeline. Say no to it, and suddenly you’re the “neckbeard stuck in the ’90s,” outside the cool-kids club ｣
https://kyrylo.org/software/2025/08/21/why-do-software-developers-love-complexity.html
It's amazing what #enshittification has done as far as forced #obsolescence goes. It's darn near impossible to browse the modern web with anything over 5 years old. Even word processors, including open source ones like LibreOffice and OnlyOffice chug on an Atom CPU.
These machines were perfectly capable not long ago. Now so much is slopped together by gluing huge libraries together that even a simple software package is hundreds of megs if not gigs.
R.I.P. efficient #coding. The #bloat from "vibe code" will be even more amazing.
｢ Everything’s optimised for developers – and hostile to everyone else.
This isn’t accidental. It’s cultural. We’ve created an industry where complexity is celebrated. Where cleverness is rewarded. Where engineering sophistication is valued more than clarity, usability, or commercial effectiveness.
It’s easier to win an argument by citing SSR compatibility issues than it is to ask, “Why are we using React for a blog?” ｣
https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/javascript-broke-the-web-and-called-it-progress/
｢ Everything’s optimised for developers – and hostile to everyone else.
This isn’t accidental. It’s cultural. We’ve created an industry where complexity is celebrated. Where cleverness is rewarded. Where engineering sophistication is valued more than clarity, usability, or commercial effectiveness.
It’s easier to win an argument by citing SSR compatibility issues than it is to ask, “Why are we using React for a blog?” ｣
https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/javascript-broke-the-web-and-called-it-progress/
You may call me an "opinionated asshole" from your point of view, but I sincerely wish I was wrong.
The real cost doesn't come through to #consoomers except as #ReducedLifecycle due to #bloat.
But then again what do I expect from a coward doing the reply & block - combo, because confronting the fact that people got burned out by shit like PHP would mean admitting mistakes, and we can't have that as a fanboy.
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