> I fear we’ll be stuck in a permanent state of using Tailwind and React and all the LLM-favored libraries as they were frozen in time at the beginning of 2025.
Would it be such a bad thing if the "right way" to build a JavaScript frontend didn't change so much every year?
let me take the comment you replied to and follow through a bit.
would it be such a bad thing if we moved away from JavaScript entirely?
If we commit to AI, that seems exceedingly unlikely to happen.
I mean do we really think that JavaScript is the best way to do this? I don't. I've been in IT and software development for 30 years. I thought I would see things progress, but I have not. Same operating systems, same browsers more or less still running JavaScript, same network stack, same everything. an immense amount of work to slowly evolve things that weren't designed to evolve for 30 years.
Thirty Years.
We all know that things around us are flawed and that there are better ways, but we do nothing about it. How many people are looking at new paradigms, new ways to do something? Three? Four? I bet it's within that order of magnitude. Come on.
I'm disappointed in everyone in this industry, including myself.
Look at Plan 9. It was different. It was flawed, but it tried to fix things, at least. It tried to do some sharp corners in Unix differently, and for the time I think it was good. At least they made an attempt. Linux took a few lessons from it, but I don't think anyone else did. Not really.
I'm mad. We have let ourselves down, we have let ourselves stagnate and simply spin wheels because using what's here is easier than designing something new and sharing it. Influential people don't look at new things often enough. People new to the field and young people don't understand what my complaint is about really, because this is all brand new, to them. They didn't witness the stagnation. I did. I am disappointed and I don't really know what to do about it.
As someone who is interested in computer history and those roads not travelled, I can understand the sentiment. Another way to think of it is that innovation is happening at higher levels of the stack, and I'm not sure whether that's a bad thing. We also haven't tried much beyond UDP and TCP in those decades, other attempts at QoS networking and the like have failed. But UDP and TCP are still working out more or less and the ability to have a standard lets us focus on other things.
There was SCTP and a couple others but in practice anything not TCP or UDP is blocked by middle boxes and also NAT traversal is a problem. QUIC has been successful but that rides on top of UDP. Specialized networks (eg telecom backhauls) still see use of specialized protocols and those are large deployments.
The big thing that's been an ongoing experiment in networking with mixed results is IPv6 which is at a lower level of the stack.
I don't understand what they think it is they're teaching? Will we teach kids to "read" by taking a photo of their bedtime story and hitting a button next?
One of the teaching methods is "look at the context, like pictures, and guess what the word is". One example I remember was thinking "pony" is "horse" due to association without being able to sound it out.
However you choose to look at it, military service is still widely respected as a duty to the nation and a place were patriotic sentiments exist.
I’m not debating the right or wrong of it, but it just is so. I’m pretty sure the entire history of militaries have been full of people enlisting to die and kill on behalf of some random politician they don’t necessarily agree with. There’s nothing particularly notable happening differently.
But Trump being the clown he is, this is laughable.
Why not just join ICE? The acts you might have to commit there are probably less bad than what the military gets up to, and you don't get sent overseas?
There's no way these numbers can be correct. My school was 8 am to 3 PM, that's 35 hours a week right there for full time teachers. But teachers spend many more hours outside the class preparing lessons, grading work, and following up on things. If you even spend a week teaching something you quickly realize how much extra prep work goes into it.
From the study: "Teachers work more than they are required to work by contract, but less than self reported hours of work. I find that teachers are more likely to overestimate their hours of work in the CPS than workers in other occupations, and conclude that this is likely because of an uneven work year".
Even by your own example, you're only at 35 hours a week, and that's before you subtract out the weeks of summer vacation, winter vacation, spring break, etc; where the workload is certainly far less than 40 hours a week.
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