The Langoliers
A group of travelers on a red-eye flight from California to Maine wake up to discover that most of their fellow passengers have vanished mid-flight, along with the pilots and flight attendants.
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- I've been feeling the same sentiment as the author.
Having worked on 3 sizable React projects now (all started before I arrived), I can only conclude that beyond a toy phase -- once you have many hands working on React and *particularly* once you start managing sizable state -- there is only pain.
The most recent case resulted in spending quite a bit of time explaining to a peer why we were experiencing an unexpected side effect and redraw and explaining how `useMemo` and `useCallback` actually need to be used [0] and made me think of Stephen King's Langoliers.
It occurred to me that "React is the new IBM" [1] It has become so dominant in the market that no one can get away from it. But that also means that it can no longer innovate. Andrew Clark's twitter post *acknowledging* that signals and fine-grained reactivity would be better for performance but that the React team doesn't care pushed me over the edge of frustration.
I think that React finds itself not too far off from where IBM was at the micro-computing revolution. IBM had become too beholden to its market and too arrogant in their own success to see their own downfall.
The traffic and feedback on the second article is an indication that there are a lot of folks out there who are really, really dissatisfied with the state of React.
[0] https://chrlschn.medium.com/8eb7bb72c87
[1] https://chrlschn.medium.com/react-is-the-new-ibm-6af2f4b04e5...
- The Cronophage makes me think of the Eponymous Langoliers Novella from Stephen King's "Four past Midnight". I wonder if he saw this clock and gained some inspiration from it? The "inspirations" section of the Wikipedia page only cites alleged plagiarism of unrelated IPs.
- “Information is destroyed as you go forward in time; it’s not destroyed as you move through space,” Oppenheim said.
Strangely, this reminds me Stephen King's "The Langoliers".
- Stephen King novel "The Langoliers" (made into a bad TV movie) see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Langoliers
They are creatures that come and eat up the world after time has moved past, dead web sites (and dead forum sites in particular) get 'eaten' by spammers in much the same way.
