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I mean I really get why people like using npm and Typescript is great, but the whole “web-tech got adapted for backend then adapted back to web” just makes everything so unnecessarily complicated.

I think a lot of this “using frameworks without knowing why” is just because people read articles about them and how-tos and get excited too quickly, and Google just shows way more tutorials about how to do something in React than in plain JS.

What are lambdas in this context? I thought those were just another name for closures?



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