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The Ultimate Risk: Betting Your Career on Facebook's JavaScript
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The Ultimate Risk: Betting Your Career on Facebook's JavaScript

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A three-panel meme featuring a scene from the movie 'Passengers' with Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt. In the first panel, Jennifer Lawrence's character says, 'I like men who take risks.' In the second, Chris Pratt's character replies with a serious expression, 'I'm betting my entire career on a JavaScript framework created by Facebook.' The third panel shows them passionately kissing. The humor stems from portraying the adoption of a Facebook-backed framework (implicitly React.js) as a high-stakes, attractive risk. For experienced developers, this resonates on multiple levels: the volatility of the JavaScript ecosystem, the history of controversial licensing with Facebook's open-source projects, and the general distrust of relying on technologies controlled by large corporations that might abandon them. The meme satirizes how career-defining these technology choices can feel

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Betting your career on a Meta framework is the ultimate thrill. Will they deprecate it in favor of a VR-first framework, or will they just change the license to require you to post your stand-up notes to Threads?
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Betting your career on a Meta framework is the ultimate thrill. Will they deprecate it in favor of a VR-first framework, or will they just change the license to require you to post your stand-up notes to Threads?

  2. Anonymous

    Committing your whole career to React is like pinning dependencies with ^0.x - technically allowed, existentially reckless

  3. Anonymous

    Nothing says 'I live dangerously' quite like building your entire career on a framework that Facebook could deprecate faster than they killed Parse, while your package.json grows larger than the codebase of Apollo 11

  4. Anonymous

    Ah yes, the classic developer pickup line: 'I've coupled my entire professional future to a library maintained by a company that deprecated Parse, killed off Flux variants, and can't decide if classes or hooks are the way forward.' Nothing says 'calculated risk assessment' quite like betting your career on a framework whose breaking changes arrive faster than your sprint cycles, maintained by a company whose primary business model is surveillance capitalism. But hey, at least the component lifecycle is more stable than your relationship status - though both require constant reconciliation and occasionally leave you wondering if you should have just gone with Vue

  5. Anonymous

    React: the framework where your career's useEffect dependency array is [Zuck'sNextPivot, infiniteRe-renders]

  6. Anonymous

    Nothing says risk like betting your career on a Facebook‑born JS framework - somewhere between the old PATENTS file and the next “experimental” API rename

  7. Anonymous

    Nothing says risk appetite like coupling your org’s frontend and hiring pipeline to a single‑vendor OSS repo whose license, rendering model, and feature flags pivot with quarterly OKRs

  8. @SuperiorProgramming 5y

    Why?

  9. @SuperiorProgramming 5y

    It is worthless.

  10. @RiedleroD 5y

    translate that please?

    1. @batuto 5y

      It's a Joke, Right? Because this is the stupidest thing that I have seen.

  11. @RiedleroD 5y

    can someone tell me which js framework this is referencing?

    1. @Misantropo 5y

      React?

      1. @RiedleroD 5y

        oh, thank

        1. @ozalexo 5y

          Have a good career! ;-)

          1. @RiedleroD 5y

            my career so far consists mostly of avoiding javascript as much as possible

            1. @RiedleroD 5y

              I've had a few javascript assignments in school, and I've written one line of javascript for my website, but that's it. Everything else there is HTML5 and CSS3, and I'm lowkey proud of that.

              1. @RiedleroD 5y

                There are websites that implement scrolling with javascript…

          2. @dsmagikswsa 5y

            I guess mainly web dev would touch js more...

            1. @ozalexo 5y

              And thank God!

  12. @nameToString 5y

    Nice Starlord learning js

    1. @azizhakberdiev 5y

      It is other movie

      1. @nameToString 5y

        I know

  13. @nameToString 5y

    But it's the same actor

  14. @ejnshtein 5y

    but react is not a framework 🤔

    1. @azizhakberdiev 5y

      Actually, but most call it as framework

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