When's the last time a JS library was called a defacto standard and it was still the overwhelmingly dominant solution 3 years later?
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3: And in practice, these "defacto standards" are more-or-less fads (or sometimes, solutions that work in a small domain).
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4/4: It's reasonable for ppl to want to use popular tools, but "defacto standard" as a synonym for "popular" is hurting more than helping.
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It’s an instance of my favorite slogan: there’s no shortcut to consensus.
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People (understandably!) want to avoid the churn of working out shared solutions, but avoiding the hard work often just prolongs the debate.
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"nobody ever got fired for recommending jQuery."
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It could also be a goal to aspire to. Maybe you are thinking of a single do it all category like ember or jquery, but there are many areas
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