[HN Gopher] React has become the 'Linux kernel' of modern softwa...
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       React has become the 'Linux kernel' of modern software development
        
       Author : yilugurlu
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2025-01-25 20:48 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (twitter.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
        
       | andrewfromx wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | hermanradtke wrote:
         | > 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".
        
           | philipwhiuk wrote:
           | "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.
        
       | jsheard wrote:
       | The CEO of webshit believes modern software development is
       | synonymous with webshit. Quelle surprise.
        
       | ilrwbwrkhv wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | hmmokidk wrote:
       | If you have any brain cells left please avoid the link as they
       | will want to seppuku
        
       | bigfatkitten wrote:
       | It's amazing how far you can come in the software industry now
       | without possessing even a general understanding of how computers
       | work.
        
         | sgarland wrote:
         | 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_gruchalski wrote:
         | Wait until all those ,,know it all learned on chatgpt cannot
         | google" come to the job market.
        
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