A problem might be major libraries moving on to Hooks-based interfaces
Stable is being able to set up unattended upgrades on Ubuntu LTS fearlessly. When was the last time you worried about your kernel update?
I didn't say "never update", I said that if you don't need the new features then don't upgrade. If you do need the new features then I don't understand what the problem is.
> Stable is being able to set up unattended upgrades on Ubuntu fearlessly.
lol what? I've never had a system survive an Ubuntu upgrade without breaking something.
True of every software platform in existence.
On the scale of upgrade complexity, react is a walk in the park compared to e.g. everything in the android and ios world, or e.g. any application written for a desktop platform. Ever tried upgrading a C++ app? It's a nightmare beyond anything I've ever faced in my career.
I've never worked with Rust in a professional environment, but I've been a big fan of it for my personal projects for some years now, however, the introduction of async was a massive disruption to the entire ecosystem.
In my opinion, complaining about JS complexity in particular reflects ignorance of the wider software world.
Perl code doesn't work today just as well as it didn't work 20 years ago.
That's not the case with React or most of the js frameworks
.net??? I worked with .net for about 10 years and over multiple versions of .net and .net core, the amount of time we spent facilitating upgrades was much more than I ever spent on upgrading a react app. In fact, at my last .net job I was hired specifically to transition the company's platform from .net to .net core. There was so much work involved that they literally created a role for it.
I can see this being the case if the codebase wasn't in a good state which is a problem of its own. But with proper separation layers. There is not much you have to update in a net framework 472 library project to move it to a net core library project which should contain most of your logic and be tech agnostic anyway. Most of the work is likely to be in the technology dependent projects (web projects and that kind). The common language features remain virtually unchanged. In a front-end project this is much harder, as that kind of abstraction is much harder to come across as the language and technology are tightly coupled.
In an ideal world, your component logic is tech agnostic and should work unchanged in React, Angular, Vue, etc. But in real life, you write your logic using the relevant tech and then when that tech breaks some keyword or how to do x, your app breaks in 50 components and you have to go and make the change manually in all those 50 components.