Svelte(kit) renewed my love for web development. It gets out of the way when i want it to, is build on web standards so i'm not stuck on annoying "gotchas", and has all the tools I need to build something without pulling in 20 dependencies just to build a basic app.
After being a skeptic of svelte 5, its fully captured me.
The direction React/NextJS has taken modern web development is a modern day abomination. I say this as a passionate fullstack developer whos worked for YC startups and a fortune 10 company within the past decade. I appreciate Vercel as a company too; I have no hate towards them but the NextJS 13 release almost made me quit web development.
Svelte is an absolute love language to the web and a direction for healing the damage caused by modern "web frameworks". It's the absolute direction we need to head in.
Here's something beautiful. I'm teaching my brother-in-law programming to get a job when he's out of the military. He's learning JS/CSS/HTML and doing quite well. With about a 2 minute tutorial of how Svelte works; he was able to start creating some pretty impressive projects. A day later because he already knew the basics of how the web works, he was in Sveltekit building fullstack apps -_-.
For a weekend/side project that needs db and storage, why would I spend days correctly setting up, securing, and provisioning all my infra when I could just pay a little extra and never worry about it?
When creating a new project I wear all hats. Project management, UX/UI designing, Frontend, Backend, Infra, User testing, security.
Having to maintain multiple projects that all bring income in as a solo developer wearing all the hats is very time consuming, this is an absolute godsend and I'll pay for the DX happily.
Honestly though, the original comment was just a plea for more competition to drive innovation it seems.
Most of the data scientists I've worked with are programmer hobbyists as well. We've used Javascript/Python/Go/R. Maybe this will exist for people in that demographic, those who are data scientists that already are solid in programming.
This is an extremely sad sellout and a poor and obvious effort to monopolize. The fact we all know whats coming is a sign Adobe should not exist as a company anymore with the way they can treat end users/products and still get away with it.
I'm sure the people at Sketch are currently throwing a party that can be seen halfway across the world though.
I wish this company succeeded with its mission, but it turned into a variant of Hackerrank I feel. I hate leetcode/hackerrank type interviews. On the hiring side of things where the company I work for screens candidates this way; it sucks. I would have loved to see a test of more practical programming experience.
Candidates spend their time on stupid coding questions all day instead of actually coding something useful or that they can learn from. I have a relative doing exactly this. No idea how to build a simple RESTful API, yet spends all his time on Hackerrank posting on linkedIn how he's in the top 'X' percent.
When they get hired and put on a "real world" project they are absolutely lost :(.
I also tried Triplebyte after seeing ads on Reddit. Passed a few tests and nothing really ever came of it other than an email.
We as a small business use IPad Pros and Google Jam Board. It’s honestly fantastic. Quick to jump into, export, and share. Especially for those moments where you only need the whiteboard for 30 seconds to get a point across
DDG is fantastic and now my preference. I tried it a couple years ago and was constantly second guessing their results.
To have come this far as to it now becoming my daily preference, the team has come a long way and has instilled great confidence that they will continue to improve the platform