Many years ago, someone tried to get me into cryptocurrencies. "They're the future of money!" they said. I replied saying that I'd rather wait until they were more useful, less volatile, easier to use, and utterly reliable. "You don't want to get left behind, do you?" They countered. That struck me as a bizarre sentiment. What is there to be left behind from? If BitCoin (or whatever) is going…
  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    For every HTML 2.0 you might have tried, you were just as likely to have got stuck in the dead-end of Flash.

    This one hurt. I had a decade plus old piece of tech debt from when they fucking killed flash before I could move on to new projects.

    • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Flash had its use. I think a better analogy for me is web frameworks.

      I remember in the mid 2000s there seems to be a new one every week. “LOL, you aren’t using Ruby On Rails? Peasant!” “LOL, you aren’t using Django? Peasant!”

      Still seems to be the case with Electron, React, Node, blah blah blah.

      Running to stand still.

      • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I feel like the web framework question has stabilized in recent years. React and node (not a web framework but in a similar boat) are stable and common, and angular and a few others are good alternatives.

        • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          I hear they’re changing the language these things run on from JavaScript to TypeScript.

          No thanks to the hamster wheel.

          • kboy101222@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            2 months ago

            I mean, Typescript just compiles down to JavaScript. I’m also generally anti a million frameworks, but JavaScript to TypeScript is easy