I been living with the real-world consequences of entitled SV...behaviour...for a long while now, and it's the moments when it all goes to pot that you can really tell which tech is sustainable. And experience teaches that React+whatever sets you up to fail in this moment.
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Replying to @slightlylate
For government websites I’m certainly in agreement that static HTML is the way to go. Less sold on the “only serious projects are static” logic.
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Replying to @tahini
I'm saying something different: it's not about static, it's about reach. Do whatever you can to improve the experience, but *start with reach as the primary consideration*. You can probably afford some JS! But not as much as the JS-industrial-complex wants to sell you.
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Replying to @slightlylate
Yeah I think I disagree with this, though. Most businesses start off with very few resources. The aim, nearly 100% of the time, is to prove an idea in a extremely limited market. That is largely how it is in the early stage world.
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Replying to @tahini @slightlylate
In the FAANG world, you are totally right. A new intuitive at Google should start with reach as the primary consideration.
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Replying to @tahini @slightlylate
But isn’t that the bubble? Not the startups using React to get a product out?
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FANG teams know limits *much* more than the folks buyimg JS-of-the-week. Search has N versions (where N is large) to maximize reach. GMail still maintains a static HTML version, because reach! Startups that buy this shit are dumb. Critical services that adopt it are *dangerous*
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Replying to @slightlylate
That’s my point. You should have this perspective. It’s important that you do, given what you do.
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Replying to @tahini @slightlylate
A startup testing some idea using React in a single market isn’t dangerous though.
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Replying to @tahini
As an investor, I cannot express how deeply distressed it makes me to hear of founders who imagine their market is their set of friends/families/colleagues. It's OPP, and those people are ~not drilled into what opens doors, *but your effing job is to see what they don't*
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So you're right, and if the meta point is "most startups deserve to die, not least of all because they had no strategy and no way to test most of the market for fit"...ok. But it's still sad.
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Replying to @slightlylate
I think you are arguing with yourself here. You know that isn’t what I mean.
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Replying to @tahini
I admit that what you said seems to boil down to "react for a rich-people-only-or-desktop app should be fine", which I agree with, but then I got distracted by the idea a startup would do this, which is obvious malpractice
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