Hi folks,<p>Since many of HN users are well educated people I trust I want to know which unpopular opinions you got?
For me I think everything's fine the way it is.
Life is evolving and a continuous movement.<p>What are your out of the box opinions about ... everything?
- The Borg were the good guys and the galaxy and various timelines would be better off if they assimilated the Federation<p>- Evolution's uneven pacing caused human problem-solving ability to grow far quicker than our moral and social ability, resulting in a violent, selfish ape with powers far beyond what our societies can truly support. To really progress socially, it is not enough to merely evolve human culture and knowledge, but to evolve the human genome itself (or some manufactured equivalent thereof). See also: The Borg were the good guys.<p>- Generationally speaking, today's kids will have a worse life than we did. Their own kids and grandkids will be even worse off.<p>- React is awesome. Next.js is pretty nice for the right use case, despite its complexity and learning curve<p>- Cloudflare is one of the few companies actually driving the Web forward<p>- Game streaming (via GeForce Now) is a tremendously better value proposition than owning & upgrading gaming PCs every few years<p>- Both major U.S. political parties suck (maybe this isn't <i>that</i> unpopular these days...)<p>I guess this means we should make a new human species coded in React and host the entire society in Cloudflare or something like that...? Didn't get that far yet...
Well... Java's "Checked Exceptions" are fundamentally a great feature, held back by a lack of syntactic-sugar and and negative reactions from lazy coders who didn't like it when the compiler told them they needed to <i>think</i> about error handling. More languages should offer the same kind of feature.
TypeScript as a backend language does not make a lot of sense when you can choose a real statically typed language instead. It's only useful if you're already stuck in the JavaScript ecosystem and need types.
React is not the best frontend framework, and it's only popular now because it's popular and has momentum.<p>I'd go a step further to say that React is not a framework - it's a library that people have cobbled together "frameworks" around.
One of my unpopular opinion is that I think that it is unethical to do “gender affirming” procedures and treatments in children and young people under 18 years of age.<p>Another unpopular opinion I hold is that I think dogs are superior to cats.
That WebAssembly will kill off JavaScript.<p>JavaScript is already dead, it just doesn't know it. We've entered the era of Zombie JavaScript.