Are there too many JavaScript frameworks? | Brendan Eich and Lex Fridman

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Brendan Eich is the creator of JavaScript and co-founder of Mozilla and Brave.

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[maxmustermann]

The usage of (JavaScript) framewortks has become a good measure to indicate willful ignorance paired with the desire of effortless results. "I don't need to know this, I can do it in one line of code". Goes on to install gigabytes of dependencies.

[just-in-spacetime]

Hi twice in one day. How do we time this so well 🤫

[coffeemakir]

React echo system is a beautiful mess, constantly feels like nobody knows what's going on ... Not to mention crazy backends like sanity 🤕

[rauldeandrade]

Yes there are and that's a great thing. That's how evolution accelerates in an ecosystem. Not all will work out, but they'll evolve js and open access to more and more people to create and that's a beautiful thing. The Javascript ecosystem is democratising programming in the world

[jamiemccartney]

Frame work is so unpredictable in growing countries that you can see kids wasting thier lives trying to sale a product that doesn't have competition in the real world. It's sad to see young people without the same tools try and sale such a basic model :(

[guyunknown]

We never wanted 3 billions of javascript garbage. Javascript itself is enough. Id you want to improve it, don't create 300 billion new frameworks, instead, make the vanilla js better and integrate the framework features in javascript or keep only 1 tucking framework not 3000 frameworks!