Any Language Except JSON

Content Fireship fireshipdev Follow The untold history of web development: 1990: HTML invented 1994: CSS invented to fix HTML 1995: JS invented to fix HTMLCSS 2006: Query invented to fix J 2010: AngularS invented to fix jQuery 2013: React invented to fix AngularS 2014: Vue invented to fix React Angular 2016: Angular 2 invented to fix AngularS React 2019: Svelte 3 invented to fix React, Angular, Vue 2019: React hooks invented to fix React 2020: Vue 3 invented to fix React hooks 2020: Solid invented to fix React, Angular, Svelte, Vue 2020: HTMX 1.0 invented to fix React, Angular, Svelte, Vue, Solid 2021: React suspense invented to fix React, again 2023: Svelte Runes invented to fix Svelte 2024: Query still used on 75 of websites

Two hooded figures from Planet of the Apes smugly declaring "Ah, victory" while your IDE lights up like a Christmas tree with warnings about unused imports. Meanwhile, you're frantically commenting out code you'll need next week because the linter won't shut up and the build pipeline is failing. Sure, the codebase looks cleaner, but we all know you're just going to re-import everything in three days when requirements change again.

That waterfall of pennies represents my soul leaving my body after hearing "works on Chrome but not Firefox" for the 500th time. The classic browser compatibility hell where your code runs perfectly everywhere except that one browser some VP insists on using. Nothing like spending 8 hours debugging a CSS flex issue that only happens in Firefox at exactly 768px width with an odd number of list items. Bonus points when the fix breaks something in Safari!

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The ultimate dad joke meets developer obsession! Imagine being so devoted to JavaScript Object Notation that you literally name your flesh and blood after it. The kid's college application is probably going to be perfectly structured with nested properties and no trailing commas. His first words weren't "mama" or "dada" but "{" and "}". The real question is whether his middle name is "Parse" so when he gets in trouble they can yell "JSON.Parse Error!" Siblings XML and YAML are definitely feeling jealous right now.

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