Screw the technical merits of arguments for and against frameworks in general or Angular.js in particular - that's not really the point. By internet standards, it's a great article because it has an interesting topic, personal narrative, a strong opinion, a bit of humour, consistent tone, and a reasonable style. In the tradition of wistful paeans - the author is longing for a more wholesome past when JavaScripts roamed unfettered by barbed wire across a pastoral landscape of virgin DOM's [yes, intentional] and free of proletarian factory classes.
It's entertainment not evangelism. Nobody whose work-a-day problems are soothed by Angular will go native because of it. It's sermon about 'those people' and the choir's Schadenfreude...and then once the act writing this comment hit 'Schadenfreude', I had to ask myself is it a good article by HN standards?
Empirically, probably yes. Theoretically no. The problem with Schadenfreude is that it comes at the price of another's misfortune, and that is a route to the meanness that both entertains the internet and harms StackOverflow. Telling people that you are laughing at them is the hell of junior high bullying - it's just that cool kids get paid to do Erlang and the kids in Toughskin dungarees are getting mocked for using JavaScript boiler plate.
It dawned on me that the best HN articles are written in the spirit of mudita - finding joy in the good fortune of others, not their misery unless our humor is black and shares their burden.
It's entertainment not evangelism. Nobody whose work-a-day problems are soothed by Angular will go native because of it. It's sermon about 'those people' and the choir's Schadenfreude...and then once the act writing this comment hit 'Schadenfreude', I had to ask myself is it a good article by HN standards?
Empirically, probably yes. Theoretically no. The problem with Schadenfreude is that it comes at the price of another's misfortune, and that is a route to the meanness that both entertains the internet and harms StackOverflow. Telling people that you are laughing at them is the hell of junior high bullying - it's just that cool kids get paid to do Erlang and the kids in Toughskin dungarees are getting mocked for using JavaScript boiler plate.
It dawned on me that the best HN articles are written in the spirit of mudita - finding joy in the good fortune of others, not their misery unless our humor is black and shares their burden.
http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html