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It's just starting. They still have a long way to go.
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Jeroen_R wrote: And the fact that it's still windows only, while a lot of web development is done on Linux and Mac.
That's a very good point and I don't disagree with you.
It's interesting to me that people are doing dev work on non-Windows platforms simply because the Windows tooling was so strong for a number of years for desktop when desktop kind of was all there was.
Also, Razor is non-standard but it's a fairly nice rendering engine and it's all backend.
Is there some comparable backend rendering engine on Linux? Maybe Java Spring type of thing or something?
Just curious.
Also, I wonder what % of devs on non-windows platforms is? I suppose Linux and Mac together is at least 50%, right? Interesting.
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Razor is nice, when you're using C# (or VB) as your backend language. But, nowadays, a lot of backend development is done in Node (JS) or in one of the JVM languages. And there are still a lot of Python (django), Ruby (Rails) and php sites too. Also, I don't think razor supports GraphQL, which might just be the next step for backend protocol.
When I go to angular conferences here in Europe, I estimate that slightly more than 50% is on Mac. When I see pictures from the states, it's more like 80%
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Well, when you add the 3 versions of windows, it's still the biggest group. But it's far from the monopoly it once had. And that's for all developers, not just web devs, who have a bigger non-windows bias.
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Don't worry, you're fine. Only an insane person would not feel the pain and frustration of working with JavaScript these days.
Everyone talks about how wonderful the democratization of open source is because it has allowed a flood of participation. On the whole, I think the benefits have far outweighed the negatives.
Unfortunately, JavaScript is the poster child for that double-edged sword and is suffering under the weight of its own success. My favorite example is also NPM bloat and how fragile it is. Change one dependency and you're likely to fall into a world of hurt.
Always remember, nothing is free, especially OSS.
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I couldn't agree more. It's ridiculous.
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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Yeah, I felt the same too My strategy here is to have a deep knowledge and master plain Javascript before learning any of these libraries. Javascript is different than some other languages like C#, Java...at first I hated Javascript because I always felt like struggling, but now I love it. Once you master it and learn how things work under the hood (prototypal inheritance, first class functions, closures...) you probably can use plain Javascript for the most of your your code or even create your own JS libraries.
Just my two cents
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and after going thru all of this, the end boss (browser compatibility) is waiting for you
pure madness, killing time and nerves, and no-one pays for this except for the devs
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You are not the only one.. I feel the same. Maybe that's some kind of test..
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Why don't you use a simple JS? You don't even need jQuery! Nothing is better than a simple "document.getElementById".
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It's all quite easy, really.
You simply start by installing the thing so you can calibrate the other thing.
After that it's simply a matter of starting the whatchamacallit so you can use the doohickey.
Of course you should think about updating the parameters so you can jingle the mumble.
You may need the yackity depending on your smackity.
Now start up the bibbity giving it a babbity and you will find it just works.
Any questions? 
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You did not mention ECMAScript 6 so far. That's where the trouble starts finally. There are lots and lots of syntactic sugar where my favorite online book says: This is equivalent to... You don't have to use this yourself but if you read someone elses code and you meet things like ...myObject or ´${ROOT_URL}/foo' there is no workaround. You have to once again to look up this strange phrase.
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I, like many I suspect, have moved away from JS as there seems to be no direction to the ways of doing things.
I have been a corporate dev for the last 20+ years and have realized that when developing for a company (any middle sized to large company) the constancy and quality of the code matters. This relates to what devs are allowed to use and bringing in external libraries/code too.
I have worked in tightly regulated industries in the past (and probably the future too) when the only thing that is not regulated is the (re) use of other peoples code (which cannot be verified as bug free, consistency nor fir-for-purpose) and this has had me in fierce arguments with many technical and non-technical people.
<rant>
I get to the point that I cannot say that the software I deliver is bug free as I cannot (and will not) guarantee that dependencies are likewise.
Moving away from JS just means that there are (currently) fewer options, but that is rapidly changing.
Don't get me wrong, as like any dev worth their salt, I am inherently lazy. I don't want to reinvent the wheel (or MVC or EF or WPF or HTML_, but when the quality is compromised by use some else'es home project (which may or may not be flaky) in your 24/7 systems that's the end. I really don't have time to vet all the code that people bring in to the system, and the maintenance nightmare (and possibly regulatory constraints).
It gets worse when your build systems are designed to update external code (ie unverified) when a build is done.
You can write all the tests in the world to mitigate this behavior, but so long as an external dev doesn't break existing functionality (for good or bad) you will never know if those external modules are leaking (sensitive) data or not.
 
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You are learning Grass-Hopper...
I have been writing about these issues in the Microsoft Community for years and everyone has seemingly gone their own way. Yet others have sounded the alarms over this very issue as well.
The industry has created a "Tower of Babel" for the sake of expediency and the illusion of productivity to satisfy insane deadlines created by incompetent management.
We have the Internet to blame also as it allows everyone to pile their own two-cents in without any restraint.
Now we have a community that is quite a mess... And the productivity yields are hardly any better than years ago when things were much simpler to create. Of course today the emphasis is on the coolest tools to use with the latest jargon and not the creation of quality applications. And how could anyone create quality applications with so many tools that have not really been tested thoroughly for their own levels of quality.
We should all simply go back to ASP.NT WebForms as the issues that MVC and JavaScript claimed to resolve have only created new ones...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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haha. good point. those owful days I had to help to my wife learn web development I felt exactly the same
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I haven't been hard drive shopping in over a year and I am curious when these little gems hit the market. I would also like to see if anybody has used them yet and hear what their thoughts are.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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I would say, try it In six month the next hipe is ready to retry 
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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If you have been using SATA SSD, you won't feel a lot of speedup with M.2 SSD, unless your workload consists of many sequential read/write which I highly doubt so. My home PC has 120GB SATA SSD(Primary) for OS and 500GB M.2 SSD(Secondary) for games and Visual Studio solutions/projects and a 1TB HDD to keep downloaded stuff.
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I got one with my latest portable. They are faster than many (most?) SSDs, but if you already use an SSD, you won't notice a major performance increase. I don't know about the power requirements; perhaps the manufacturers' websites will have some information.
As far as I can see, their major advantage is to portable manufacturers - having a smaller form factor allows them to make slimmer devices.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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My systems drive is a Samsung 850 Pro, and really, I don't need anything faster!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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There is always room for improvement; as far as I'm concerned, if non-volatile storage is not as fast as volatile storage, it is too slow.
(And no, the solution isn't slowing down the volatile storage. )
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Quote: the solution isn't slowing down the volatile storage
Rats! That is what I was going to suggest! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I have a slightly different viewpoint: if volatile storage is not as big as non-volatile storage, it is too small.
I'll favour size over speed, any day.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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