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Why We Should Stop Using JavaScript According to Douglas Crockford (Inventor of JSON) - YouTube (youtube.com)

submitted 5 months ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/tech@programming.dev

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[–] Bookmeat@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This is typical human behaviour. Build something shit that kind of works. Tell everyone about it and get them to use it. Encounter externalities, scaling issues, etc. Apply bandaid. Achieve critical mass. Oops, too big to fail / sunk cost is too great to switch.

Stuck with it now.exe