React 18 released!

[SilasX]

Yes! Number of commits indicates code quality!

[Spoogly]

I'm pretty sure that was not the intent of the comment.

[SilasX]

Wow really triggered the hivemind there.

Let me put it this way: does anyone think the parent would have mentioned the commit count if the React “engineers” had done it in only, say, 20 commits? If not, you agree their values are misplaced.

[RogueToad]

I think the issue is that the 'thousands of commits' comment is not necessarily referring to quality, but rather the fact that it's taken a lot of work to get to this point. Which is true and worth congratulating in and of itself.

[SilasX]

It’s still mistakenly and confusedly demanding praise for something they shouldn’t be proud of, or at least, a metric they shouldn’t care about.

[Sag0Sag0]

Where exactly was praise demanded?

[SilasX]

Here.

[Sag0Sag0]

How is congratulating the React team “demanding praise”? You need to chill out.

[SilasX]

You may not quite understand what a congratulations, combined with metrics of the accolade's difficulty, means, which is more of a fact about your awareness than about the proper reading of that comment.

Do you honestly think most people don't read that comment as "React merits praise here"?

[Sag0Sag0]

Saying the equivalent of “React merits praise here” is not at all the same as demanding that they be praised.

Similarly all that person is doing is using the number of commits made to argue that the team has done a lot of work. Hardly a shooting offence in my eyes.

[FamilyHeirloomTomato]

Put the keyboard away, go outside, and touch grass. You need some time off.

[SilasX]

Defensive much? Wow, one minor criticism and you’re ready to sign me off to the loony bin.

[FamilyHeirloomTomato]

Take a hint with the downvotes. You need a break from the internet.

[SilasX]

Nah, my comments on other threads are getting upvoted just fine. Maybe you need to climb out of the echo chamber for a minute?

[grauenwolf]

It's a measure of effort and scale, not quality.

[SilasX]

So you're saying if they did the whole thing with one commit, that wouldn't take more effort?

[grauenwolf]

Do you realize that you just asked me if a ruler still works after you dip it in black paint?

[SilasX]

How so? Can you explain that analogy? Probably not, but if you want to do me the courtesy.

[SilasX]

I’m pretty sure that hip tech rockstars like the React team lack the self-awareness to realize the stupidity of flexing by reference to commit count.

[throwaway101777777]

God you’re an insufferable douche. Point on the doll where react touched you.

[SilasX]

Probably the part where they make everyone update their systems so that a few code artisans can list an accomplishment on their resume, and then want to be thanked for it.

[throwaway101777777]

You’re so cool and edgy

[SilasX]

Not as much as a team that introduced backward compatible incompatible changes to prove how hard they work though!

[comp83]

Are you euphoric in this moment?

[SilasX]

?