Frameworks Memes

The modern dev industry in one horrifying portrait. This poor soul has spent 15 years installing packages and memorizing framework APIs without understanding a single line of vanilla code underneath. Can't write a for loop without reaching for lodash, but boy can they recite the entire React documentation while sleeping. I've interviewed these people. They'll talk your ear off about their "deep expertise" in 47 frameworks they've "mastered," but ask them to reverse a string without npm and suddenly they need to "research best practices." Their resume is just a word cloud of package names. The worst part? These people get hired. A lot. Because nobody wants to admit they can't tell the difference between someone who understands programming and someone who's just really good at following Medium tutorials.

Ah, the modern "full stack" - three JavaScript frameworks and absolutely nothing else. Backend? What's that? Database? Never heard of it. Networking? Is that some kind of social media thing? This is the equivalent of saying you're a car mechanic because you know how to change three different brands of windshield wipers. The stack in question appears to be Meteor.js, BitBucket, and some other JS framework that probably didn't exist last Tuesday and will be deprecated by Friday.