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Is that a joke? Parks brought in 25 billion for Disney in 2019. People aren't going to stop going to Disney parks because covid existed. I'm not a Disney fanboy by any means but the experience at their parks is truly something unique and fantastic especially for children

This company looks to be a team of three (probably very smart) engineers who build cool custom software for likely relatively small clients. The software is likely only supported and modified by them. In that scenario something like Haskell makes sense - however once you need to scale your engineering footprint beyond 5-10 people it becomes virtually impossible to rationalize using a niche language like Haskell.

She was an employee

Cofounder????

What a nonsensical article

It's lost them elections before

This decision does not apply to HBS though

Wow. No offense but this is a shockingly naive take

I am not at all a React fanboy, I'm just using is a metaphor for Vue/Angular/React. You're selling Angular short it's still a great framework that is very popular, even better than React for some use cases as it has more out of the box and is more opinionated

The author of redux works at Facebook

Superior in what way? Do you really trust that SvelteJS is going to be a better product in 5 years over something like React that Facebook invests millions of dollars every year?

I've working at large F100 financial services companies as an engineer and technical manager for 10 years. I've seen front ends built using a myriad of techniques and frameworks.

Leaving bytes and bundle weight aside, in 2020 JS frameworks like React are far and away the best approach for front-end engineering from a large organizational standpoint.

1)Not difficult to hire for. JS frameworks are currently in the sweet spot where they're both widely popular and "cool". Consequently it's not hard to find good candidates. That wasn't the case 5 years ago where React/Angular developers were still uncommon.

2) The HUGE and helpful community of developers. There are so many excellent resources for learning and solving problems with JS frameworks. JS developers are eager to show off on medium and similar sites. I've never seen such a large and enthusiastic community. This will inevitably subside as JS fall out of favor but I hope it doesn't for a long time.

2)Rapid UI development. The JS ecosystem make it easy to build UIs quickly that don't completely suck and look good for the ever-important demos to senior leadership.

3)Opinionated frameworks naturally enforce best practices and ensure relatively consistent architecture. This makes it easy to move engineers from one team to another and make grokking new codebases a lot easier. New engineers are productive quickly and begin creating value for the company. This was not the case with the inevitable jquery monstrosities that resulted after a critical mass of code or # of engineers.

4)Fewer bugs. JS ecosystem makes it very easy to write unit and integration tests.

Companies with IT budgets that are 9+ figures will happily pay for extra bytes across the wire in exchange for those benefits