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Developers Rail Against JavaScript ‘Merchants of Complexity’
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I often don't like what the vanilla language absolutists claim on topics like this.
Sure, there are a ton of frameworks, and you could write all of that in vanilla JS if you wanted to. But the issue lies here. My job is to make a product, and by using an existing framework, I can save countless hours of work. People incomprehensibly smarter than me have made that process so much smoother.
No one is asking, let alone forcing you to use any framework out there.
But I also find it ironic, that an "AI" entrepreneur, and Lex Fridman of all people, are complaining about this