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This is the latest emerging "boring but works" stack.

• mort96 3mo ago
  "Latest emerging boring but works" sounds like an oxymoron.
  • throw-the-towel 3mo ago
    Or sarcasm.
  • tshaddox 3mo ago
    So something can only be "boring but works" if it was created before today?
    • mort96 3mo ago
      Yes, it's not boring if it's the new hotness
      • tshaddox 3mo ago
        Okay, then how can something become boring? It needs to start as the new hotness? Does that imply that the people who use non-boring software are the ones who determine which things get to graduate to being boring?
        • mort96 3mo ago
          More or less, yeah?
        • SahAssar 3mo ago
          Yeah, boring implies that it is predictable, proven and mostly unchanging. In software those almost always come with age.
    • ragnese 3mo ago
      Unfortunately, yes. It's a backward looking metric, like how economists can only call a recession/depression after it's been X months of bad metrics, even if everyone living in the first month of one feels the economy going poorly. We'll only know if these tools are "boring but work" at some point in the future. The hope is always that "this time will be different". Maybe these tools are so awesome that they'll become a de facto standard and, therefore, "boring". It's JavaScript, so I'm not holding my breath, though.