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Due to the restrictions (short term at least) when it comes to training data and availability of documentation, I believe coding in a new language or framework becomes an even bigger mountain than usual due to chatGPT providing misleading information.

This is made worse if there are breaking changes in a new release that you are using. Even when the thing is popular, like Svelte, it was giving me outdated information before the introduction of Runes that often led to deadend packages or solutions that resulted in odd performance.

I'm sure eventually it'll be resolved, but ultimately I would only recommend people sticking to more traditional languages and frameworks that have been around for many years now and are relatively unchanging in order to benefit from chatGPT. Basically, the more projects you find using that thing on github, the better your outcome is going to be with current LLMs.




Maybe JS devs will learn to stop reinventing the wheel every half a year thanks to the knowledge cutoffs.


React was released 11 years ago and is the de facto default choice for most of the web applications.

They have definitely chilled out on "reinventing the wheel" quite a few years ago.


No? React reinvents itself constantly. I've worked on React websites and am currently working on a React Native app. React was first classes-based, now there's functions, hooks and it will soon get a compiler. Not to mention that they nudge you to use Next.js (and Expo for RN) now. Svelte did the same with the switch to these god awful Runes. Not to mention a lot of libraries that constantly get deprecated or don't work anymore with React 19.


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