My experience with frontend people is that they don't think twice about adding random libraries they just found that was released month ago. Also their projects are unmaintainable after one year, but they are long gone by that time and new developers arguing that they need to rewrite everything.

I really hate small libraries and in my projects I tend to rewrite lots of trivial stuff, but that keeps me comfortable.

Looks like they found a way to unionize and achieve job security in a very roundabout sort of way.

DHH's plain JS, plain CSS obsession was right all along?

I wouldn't call it exactly right "all along", after years of him and the Rails team jumping bandwagons and having Prototype, Scriptaculous, jQuery, CoffeeScript, SASS, Sprockets with Babel, Webpack and then whatever is there now shipping as defaults in Rails, along with lots of other stuff.

But he's been reasonable in the last couple years, sure.

Yeah, good point, for frontend, influencer code is definitely already leaking.

> I'm finding more and more that Youtube influencer software development is completely disconnected from real world software development.

You don’t need the qualifiers. Influencers are disconnected from the real world, no matter the area. That’s why they’re “influencers”, being a celebrity is the point. Think of it in contrast to someone you’d label a “maker” where the value of what they teach/build is much higher yet they have a comparatively much smaller (and usually geeky) audience.

No, I think it's pretty well connected to real world software development. Most software developers these days, especially in web, tend to be more of "copy the stuff I've seen in tutorials before or find a library that does it" rather than "understand how the stuff I'm copying works and adapt it"