React is the New IBM

Those of us that have been in the industry long enough have seen variations of this phrase come and go: <blockquote> No one ever got fired for picking IBM </blockquote> <a href="https://www.origina.com/blog/nobody-ever-got-fired-for-buying-ibm" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">The first hit on Google has a great blog post on this</a>: <blockquote> [It] is an unattributed quote that’s been repeated so often in tech circles that it’s buried into the mindset of a lot of longtime IBM® users. And that’s a problem for progress. It’s a status quo mindset — the biggest enemy of pure innovation. </blockquote> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ibm-still-safest-career-decision-cio-paul-liesching/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Citing the very well written LinkedIn article by Paul Liesching</a>: <blockquote> Of course it really means nobody ever got fired for buying the Incumbent MegaBrand. In the 80s this mantra was expertly exploited by the sales ethos known as FUD. Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt has been the most lethal tool in the MegaBrand’s sales and marketing arsenal, and it is still very much part of the armoury today. The biggest goal of a CIO in a large organisation is “Do Not Fail”, or if they do, make sure it wasn’t their fault. Buying the safe Incumbent MegaBrand has perfectly supported this goal until now. </blockquote> Variants of this have come and gone; replace “IBM” with “Oracle” or “Microsoft” or “Intel” or “SAP” and you get the point. While React obviously isn’t a company, I’d proffer that React now holds the same crown: it’s a problem for progress and a symptom of a status quo mindset. <a href="https://chrlschn.medium.com/react-is-the-new-ibm-6af2f4b04e5e">Visit Now</a>