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&gt; Building a company on Django in 2020 seems like the equivalent of driving a PT Cruiser and blasting Faith Hill’s “Breathe” on a CD while your friends are listening to The Weeknd in their Teslas. Swimming against this current isn’t easy, and not in a trendy contrarian way.
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&gt; If Wikipedia were started today, it’d be React. Maybe?
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&gt; What if everyone’s wrong? We’ve been wrong before.
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<https://macwright.org/2020/05/10/spa-fatigue.html|https://macwright.org/2020/05/10/spa-fatigue.html>

Pairs well with <https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-04-20-prioritizing-simplitity/> - sourcehut has barely any javascript, but it still often manages to be snappier than github.

&gt;  Microsoft bought GitHub for 7 billion dollars. GitLab is valued at 3 billion dollars. Together, the two companies have over 2,000 employees. <https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-04-13-sourcehut-q1-2020-financial-report|SourceHut made 4 thousand dollars in Q1> with two employees and an intern. How do we deliver on this level of reliability and performance compared to these giants? The answer is a fundamental difference in our approach and engineering ethos.

yeah, I love React but I’ve also been feeling like it might be an evolutionary dead end. We spend a lot of time fighting with React to get better page performance. I thought the support for SSR would be a lot easier and better by now, but it’s still an advanced technique, hard to get right

The trick to competing with a behemoth is to find some difficult, seemingly essential aspect what they're doing, then don't do it.  For instance with website responsiveness, design so that you get 80% of the dynamicity you're hoping for but with... let's check a project here... 113 lines of JavaScript.