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I have never said those tools are suitable in all situations. I also don't believe that I should be lecturing others about which tools to use. If they think React is better for their use case. Great. If they think Vanilla JS is better for their use case. Great.

But people need to stop posting this garbage and dismissing their legitimate choices as "hype".

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You're misreading the blog post. Choosing React because it's a well-engineered solution to a specific type of problem that plagues front-ends is fine. Choosing React because it's currently the most talked-about and blogged-about platform for front-end development is not, and is likely to lead to issues.

Similarly micro-services. If you cannot see the tradeoffs you are making when you choose to use them, you will blindly lose man-years of productivity when you inevitably encounter their rough edges. Prepare for them, and work around problem areas like monitoring and interface complexity, and it may be the right choice.

This is nothing but strawman arguments with zero factual basis.

Who are these mythical developers that are selecting technologies purely for hype ? Are these developers so significant in numbers than it is undermining our industry and causing projects to fail ?

And if choosing a technology because it is talked about and blogged about is bad a thing. Then is choosing an obscure and abandoned technology good ?

So many questions.

There are plenty of blog posts there in the wild about people adopting one hyped technology and after much pain migrating to another one that was a better match for their problems. If you don't know anyone in that situation first hand maybe you didn't change enough jobs or you are very lucky, because I assure you that it is quite easy to know someone with this kind of experience.

There are also plenty of blog posts about people moving from c++ or java to hyped technologies. Or blog posts about people failing horribly with matured technologies. Today's hype seems to be complaining about other people's hyped choices. You can't know all the reasons that made people select a technology unless you were there. Generalizing them into a group of people that make hyped choices they will regret is nonsense. Could have equally happened if they chose a non-hyped technology because most likely you go on incomplete information anyway.

So we can either summarize authors post with "don't make choices without thinking", which is kicking in an open door, or "let's blame people for choosing hyped technologies", which is no better.

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