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> JS can be awkward and confusing.

> JavaScript developers are cheap to hire

There’s your problem. Go hire JS devs that know what they’re doing.

My point is that it's not a problem. I can take someone fresh out of bootcamp with a basic understanding of react components and css and get them churning out code that works on 3 platforms.

Good luck with that kind of project.

Thanks. I've had pretty good luck so far. I would not want to be managing 3x the team size with 3 different repos to build my crappy CRUD app.

Keep in mind that I'm not trying to do anything revolutionary here. I just work for a company that needs apps on the major platforms with the least effort and expense possible.

Hiring good devs doesn't make JS less stupid, you have to recur to third party stuff like lodash and https://github.com/inspect-js to keep it tolerable.

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