Ask HN: What are good invention in web dev between 2012-2022?
JS tech:
- React + a bunch of crazy state management (slow, bloat, complex)
- Typescript (unsound, ugly)
- GraphQL (turned out to be not replacing RPC-EST (I know it right))
- A bunch of experiment js frameworks (despite they do more on server side)
- A bunch of VC-backed javascript thingy companies
Tailwindcss .. I like it when pre-custom [ ] syntax. It's not so good for interops; cli+config heavy instead of a lib)
WebAssembly. I think this is great, though slow to deliver promise.
Rust is great but not gains popularity in web space I was hoping for. Wasm binary from Rust is not as small as from Zig.
Passed the peak of Rails and peak of Elixir/Phoenix (I think it's already passed)
Non-web but web benefits from:
git is good. It was created long before 2012, though I think it's peak around 2012-2015
docker, created before 2012 but in 2012 it's considered a very new thing (not really well-known), but then k8s madness, developers realized it's not a layer of their expertise.
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I've been a kind of chasing new shiny thing person in web dev. But my love to web dev has been all downhill since React. Why are these shiny things not really good fundamentally. I'm not sure what count as "good". I think Rails was definitely good (it helps create lots of solid business, not that fast but solid, great impact). I want to like new shiny things but at least please be actually good (not even great nor excellent).
Well, Elixir, WebAssembly, Git, Rust, are good to great.