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There's a HN world of what's gaining traction and what "everybody" is using, and the real world reality. If I search for Django jobs on indeed, I get way more results for Django than if I search for Svelte (183:11). If I ctrl+f on "Who is Hiring?", the ratio gets a lot closer (13:4).

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I think sametmax was saying that "everybody" is using React for usecases that Django could do long ago, and that Svelte is in the "gaining traction" category.

On indeed.com I get 311 Django jobs and 3421 React jobs so in that sense it looks like "everybody" moved from Django to React.

I hear the argument being made, it just doesn't make any sense. We are using React to do things vanilla JS could do eyears ago. That doesn't mean React doesn't make doing those things easier. I like Svelte as well, but it likely wouldn't exist today without lessons learned from other frameworks like React.

Chasing what's popular right now is a recipe for ending up in a has-been tech

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