What the fuck is wrong with developers? Nobody cares what programming language, libraries, or architecture a simple Tetris game is made with. All that matters is the experience of the user, not the developer. Show this to any non-delusional person, it would not seem technically impressive at all.
Every hobby, craft, and profession has people making things that aren't for the end market user, but are for the education of the maker/practitioner. If you're not interested in it, thats fine. If you want to critique the user experience as a way of constructively learning/teaching about user experience, thats great.
If you just want to come here and fart on people for not always being 100% focused on the market... why?
We are posting on a website run by a venture capital firm, maybe you can explain why the market is not relevant here.
As far as education goes, it's about learning how to use a particular framework, which is highly temporal knowledge and makes use of mostly crystallized intelligence. It's problematic and largely inefficient that most web developers jump from framework to framework as the market dictates. There is an endless cycle of learning mostly temporal knowledge that's discarded as soon as the next framework comes.
People talk of fundamental CS skills, but in reality it's almost never needed in web development, where there's frameworks that abstract everything away. A tetris clone in vanilla JS would perform much better, and the code would be more directly relevant to the application, but rarely is anyone hired to do just that. It serves business interests more to have developers who are conventional, easily replaceable cogs in a machine.
I can help with that: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Pay special attention to these sections:
Show HN is a way to share something that you've made on Hacker News.
Be respectful. Anyone sharing work is making a contribution, however modest.
When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is. But don't be gratuitously negative.
Yes, some of those do show up here rather often due to the nature of the community, and in those cases, comments like yours can be considered fair game, and they might even be helpful in some cases.
This particular Show HN, however, is very clearly just a passionate engineer sharing something they've built in their spare time for fun and learning. Those guidelines I highlighted earlier are precisely in place to protect the rather significant portion of the community here who, like the author of this Show HN, happen to enjoy building, sharing, trying out, (constructively) critiquing, and learning from these kinds of projects.
If you don't share that mindset, that's perfectly fine, but if you're going to comment on a project like this, please just be more mindful of the context next time.
Such a cynical world view. At least Don Quixote was fighting for a good cause.
Your attitude is toxic, although I'm thankful you phrased it in such a juvenile way. Nobody will take you seriously when you talk like that.
Write an article about how people fetishize complicated solutions to simple problems and how it creates a dysfunctional complexity and egocentric culture without focusing on the merits of appropriate solutions to appropriate problems. It'd be a good read.
But not in the comment section here since this was clearly a hobbyist project and not as an attack. The merits of the claim are lost in the hostility of the execution.