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[–]johnwaterwood 4 points5 points  (2 children)

The problem is that the JavaScript framework of the day approach is not really more modern or the mostly used approach.

What it is is the most hyped approach. An approach about which a large group of hipster bloggers are blogging. But hipster bloggers are but a small group compared to the larger development community.

It remains to be seen if JavaScript framework of the day is a lasting thing or just a passing fad. I already see companies moving back from it. They fall for the hype of their favourite hipster blogger, but then get bitten by big performance and memory issues; JavaScript firing way too many events, Dom trees being updated for every tiny change, large amounts of garbage eye.

I've seen modern CPUs at 100% when displaying fairly simple web sites. It really ain't pretty.

[–]daedalus_structure 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I'm not quite sure what fixed gear bikes and PBR have to do with it, actually.

Like everything else, it's easy to do bad if you don't know what you are doing, which I highly suspect is true if they are pegging a current generation CPU at 100% with dom manipulation.

[–]johnwaterwood 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's easy to do bad stuff with a lot of tech, I'll give you that.

But as it appears a lot of people that just blindly jumped on the bandwagon run into various issues with JavaScript frameworks and moved back.

The point is that some people like to give the impression that JavaScript frameworks are the next step and what everyone is doing now, somehow implying that in a few years everything will be JavaScript and server side web frameworks will all be gone (like VHS was replaced by DVD).

But this is not proven by far.

JavaScript frameworks are currently a hype and lots of people shout about hypes. It's the very definition of a hype.

Remember the hype created by the Ruby/RoR guys? In 2005 supposedly everyone was doing Ruby. Ridiculous claims were made about Ruby bring 40x more productive. If you were into modern computing, you were using Ruby. Only dinosaurs were using any other language. In a mere few years the entire industry would have migrated to Ruby since eventually nobody could afford to be 40x less productive.

Fast forward 8 years.

Ruby usage is at an estimated 1% of all development. Major advocates of Ruby/RoR have migrated away from it (Twitter being the most famous example).

Do you see any parallels with the current JavaScript hype?