Bob Myers
Bob Myers
Aug 31, 2018 · 1 min read

I regret using Google Trends in the first place, since it’s not clear what it means. For example, on trend reports such as Stack Overflow Trends, jQuery still far outstrips any modern framework. That means exactly nothing, other than there is a huge amount of legacy code out there dating back more than a decade, which many unfortunate folks have to maintain, and are therefore googling and asking on Stack Overflow about. It has nothing to do with the quality of the technology, or the current adoption, or its relevance when choosing technology for a new project.

I stand by my assertion that BEM is obsolete, was never a good solution in the first place, is trying to solve a problem that no longer exists, is virtually never the framework/methodology of choice for modern projects, and is not anything that anyone should be learning about or even thinking about, other than to perhaps understand why it is no longer useful (except, as I mentioned, if you are one of those poor folks stuck with maintaining that old jQuery/BEM app).

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    Technologist/author/translator mainly writing about computing