I'm watching "Explaining React through Visual Metaphors" talk from #WomenInReact. It's fantastic - whether you work with React or not, you should check it out. One of the best talks I've seen in a long, long while. youtu.be/K8MF3aDg-bM?t=
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The presentation is great. Unfortunately, it is not always accurate - especially the JSX part.
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You might want to watch the talk and notice the bit where I point out that the point of metaphor is not pedantic accuracy 😉
A really good metaphor will invariably reach that subset of the audience who tend to take things rather too literally...
"But this is nonsense! Why is the cherry blue? Cherries are red. And programming languages are not ice-creams. This makes no sense."
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😂 My DMs are full of that exact vibe
“I don’t see what potatoes have to do with web development and you’re just confusing people “
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I'm not referring to any metaphor but to actual content. There is also a difference between being just inaccurate for simplicity and being wrong / misleading.
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OK, point taken. What's the inaccuracy, and how could it be better explained? And what would be the consequences of somebody misunderstanding it based in an incorrect explanation?