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> front-end devs don't know how to think declaratively and think in terms of state transitions instead of realizing intent

There is a thing among park rangers where “if people are taking this shortcut despite the signs and fences, then it’s the trail that’s wrong, not the people”.

More software engs should think this way instead of “educating harder should solve incompetence”.

It’s not that people are incompetent. The trail is wrong.

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We've lost a giant chunk of the lore that made desktop great, and the average developer has no idea how to begin making e.g. an undo/redo system even if they have 10 years of experience and use one everyday.

Yes, the problem is the devs. They don't even understand how applications work.

I like this perspective, I added something similar in the original post on Reddit. The problem here has to be React and not 80%+ (sample) of the software engineers that use it.

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