This is a person clearly grieving that his hard earned knowledge in his field is now not that valuable.
It is * exactly * the same as a person who spent years perfecting hand written HTML, just to face the wrath of React.
It is * exactly * the same as a person who spent years perfecting hand written HTML, just to face the wrath of React.
React USES html. Understanding html is core to understanding react. React does not in anyway devalue html in the same way that driving automatic devalues driving manual
When it matters it matters. Even in facebooks case they made react fit for their use case. You think the react devs didn’t understand html? Do you think quality frontends can be written without any understanding of html?
Like the article says we’ve moved an abstraction up. That does not make the html knowledge useless
Whatever blob of HTML the browser is offered is just the end result of multiple "compilation" steps. Nobody has spent a single iota of time thinking about whether it's pretty.
Just like opening any binary produces inelegant assembler.
He's co-founder and CTO of his own company, so I think he's doing fine in his field.
Jesus Christ, even AI websites are just garbage, and that is the lowest form of programming.
I recommend you go look at some of his talks on Youtube, his best five talks are probably all in my all time top-ten list!
Now look up who he actually is.