Heather Buchel
"They also worked behind the scenes to marginalise those who pointed out the disturbing results and extraordinary costs."
This conversation is always much more sinister to me because when I think of the voices who were marginalized it is either people who come from existing marginalized communities in tech (women, Black people, POC) or those who just generally care about making accessibility and inclusivity a foundation of the tech that we build.
Heather Buchel
I know it seems like I'm just talking about JS frameworks in general, but no one is going to convince me that the conclusion isn't there. I'm really not surprised that the white "Father, husband, React" crowd ignores the voices from those communities and that's largely why we are here, in this state of building things for the web in such a bad way.
Heather Buchel
Like, was it just a cash grab, or was it ALSO a smattering of "hey pipe down with all that talk about inclusivity, that affects what, like 2% of our users, pft also what do you mean performance is better for accessibility, EYEROLL"
Heather Buchel
I need someone who is much better at writing to talk about this intersection of bigotry and ignorance and how it led us to the current state of JS frameworks LOL Even typing that out seems like "wow that's kind of a leap" but then I also watched it happen so, yeah
Heather Buchel
I feel like if I posted this on the other site it would just spawn subtweets like "🙄 wow guess I'm racist now because I like to use X framework"
Adrian Cochrane
@hbuchel Oh yeah, that would be an interesting blogpost! If there's any merit to this idea?
Good theory anyways...
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