How do you do, fellow web developers? A growing disconnect. | exotext

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The author discusses a growing disconnect between older and younger web developers, highlighting differences in understanding web application structures and modern JavaScript frameworks. Personal experiences and examples from a new developer game show underline these generational gaps. The post reflects on shifting notions within the development community and the broad abstractions younger developers often work with.

How do you do, fellow web developers? A growing disconnect.

Ironically, having this article on daily.dev helps bridge the gap it describes - it might help developers realize that React isn’t ‘vanilla JS’ or ‘JS without frameworks’, but rather one of many ways to build something

I understand the author’s sentiment. Sometimes you spend so much time in your corner of computer software that you think your little corner is the whole world!
It’s even worse when you begin your journey as a programmer and you never played with very low level raw code or “the old way” of doing things.