Clicks & Commentary — a ‘weekly’ post where members of the Fuzz engineering team curate and comment on the interesting, inane, and often infuriating whimsy of the web.
The State of JavaScript 2017
Basically everyone took Sacha Greif and Michael Rambeau’s 2016 State of JavaScript survey because basically everyone was woefully conflicted between loving JS for being so open source and hating JS for being…so open source. While the results did nothing more than assure us we weren’t alone in our grief (and gave data-viz people something to geek out on), this year’s survey confirms the JS community is just as gloriously fragmented as ever.
The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2017
Not to be outdone by Grief & co., JetBrains has released the results of their own “State of Developer Ecosystem” survey. While some devs at Fuzz do love JetBrains products, this particular survey does feel a bit ulterior motive-ey (which they kind of jam down your throat with the “Whichever technologies you use, there’s a JetBrains tool to match” callout at the end of the page). Nevertheless, there are some interesting data points about programming language trends (everyone is bullish on Elixir!), testing, and general lifestyle habits (Swift developers apparently sleep very well).
Keeping your digital identity short and sweet
If you are concerned about the public information that is displayed during a Google search for your name, it is probably worth spending some time to follow the steps mentioned in the article to keep your digital identity relatively short.
Designing For Scalability of Management and Fault Tolerance (at StackOverflow)
Kyle Brandt talks about how he and the StackOverflow team manages a dedicated set of web servers and data centers, and how they handle scaling and fault tolerance.
Creating truly universal React component systems
One of the biggest pain-points in the React ecosystem is the frustrating gap between React Web and React Native (why did we ever use <div>’s!). Two open source projects, React Primitives and Styled Components, are joining forces to enable true web/native components. The initiative is still in the very early stages but if it matures such a collaboration could lead to the dream of all React developers — universal components.
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