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User first programming rather than work inflating bloated frameworks mainly used to justify further dev work. Which one do engineers choose

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I think SWE must be the only (allegedly) engineering discipline where developer convenience is overtly prioritised above product quality or user experience.

If you doubt this, think how many times you've seen a framework advertised due to its ease of use for developers vs due to e.g. performance in low bandwidth.

The funny thing is that DX for JS apps is usually _worse_: 2x the code just so we don’t have a page transition.

And also screw up the browsers back functionality in the process

The one they can put in their promo packet, obviously.

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