I feel like it’s a historical accident. In the past the platform couldn’t do it all, and if you wanted a dialog you had to use a library. Developers were trained to reach for libraries when they needed something like a dialog.
Then react came along and all developed learning web development after react had little to no knowledge of the platform. They were taught that touching the DOM was a bad thing to do.
That’s about it. Even now when I advocate for vanilla css I get the side eye and “tailwind and shadcn should be the default”. I get it, it’s what most people are familiar with, even if it’s worse than the platform.
This comment is at the same depth of analysis of saying that the only reason for python being successful is that universities started teaching it and then people no longer could do C++
I know you're just meeting the bar, but counterpoint: They're correct. Do you happen to have a deeper analysis above the bar of your own to deny it?
I personally feel they are for the simplest reason that Web Development exploded to the point the new blood and cultural migrants outnumbers and outproduces the old. Those lessons were taught, and kept, the mundane act of googling anything suffixed with "... in React" being the kiss of death that settled it.
ibash · · focus · HN ↗
Then react came along and all developed learning web development after react had little to no knowledge of the platform. They were taught that touching the DOM was a bad thing to do.
That’s about it. Even now when I advocate for vanilla css I get the side eye and “tailwind and shadcn should be the default”. I get it, it’s what most people are familiar with, even if it’s worse than the platform.
afiori · · focus · HN ↗
DonaldRitzke · · focus · HN ↗
I personally feel they are for the simplest reason that Web Development exploded to the point the new blood and cultural migrants outnumbers and outproduces the old. Those lessons were taught, and kept, the mundane act of googling anything suffixed with "... in React" being the kiss of death that settled it.