Mine is that the useState hook is an actual plague on the entire React ecosystem. Regardless of your opinions of React, if you wanna use something then use it right.
Typescript is not the devil
this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2026
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That's not controversial in the slightest. Everyone agrees with these except maybe a few neckbeards living in the woods.
useState worse than useEffect? I'm not much of a React expert, but I understand useState. useEffect mostly seems to be an excuse for the most horrific spaghetti code since before the abolition of goto.
I don’t think anything needs cloudflare in front of it. It’s a worthless service.
Nominal typing was a premature optimization. Product types should be structural and row polymorphic. And if they had been, dynamically typed languages nevdr would've needed to exist and wouldn't have waited so long to smuggle types back onto their data structures. That said, i'm kinda glad shell scripting languages exist.
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