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What was the most over-hyped software movement?

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard

Yet, tech like blockchain has amazing potential to reduce corruption and improve governance for countries and municipalities

Hard sell to me.

Corruption is not a technlogical issue but a deeply ingrained social/cultural/economical/cultural/political problem.

so trying to "fix it with Blockchain" looks to me like an hammer who thinks that everwthing looks like a nail.

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DrBearhands

The fact that nobody mentioned second life (as a legitimate mainstream market place) makes me feel old.

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HS

can't decide between FP, microservices, blockchain, cloud, graphql... :D

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anpos231

jQuery has been there for 13 years and it's still being used today (although a lot of people have moved away)
React has been there for 6 years but only recently started to gain the hype.
Knockout has been there for quiet a while (9 years).

I'd say that good JS frameworks can easily live 10 years. But there is constantly a lot of hype regarding new frameworks because of how easy it is to create a new one. It's like somebody is constantly making and releasing new frameworks.

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Zane Milakovic

Dart.

They even tried to make dart run native in a browser. This was google typing to reinvent the early "Works in IE" days.

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Jaaki

It looks like every single movement has been mentioned!!! hahaha

Yes, we live in a world that values hype over proof.

The social media effect will have us all jumping in the fire if it's the "IN" thing to do.

When young developers are wise enough to know that their new toy is just hype, they are probably too old to still get hired :D

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PaweΕ‚ ŚwiΔ…tkowski

JavaScript on backend

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Max Ong Zong Bao

Fintech I had spoken to a few people who were previously working in banks.

I can't imagine how anyone can stay there using old tech that doesn't allow you to grow as a developer with tech as old as 20 - 30 years old.

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Coolman
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Brent Soles

Definately want to throw micro-frontends on here. Reason being is they introduce more engineering challenges than they help solve them and can tank performance/usability of web apps.

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JC

The chat bot craze from about 3-4 years ago

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C.Fernando Maciel

Not exactly a software movement, but here it goes: agile.

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Laurie

Can I say typescript? I’ve used it before, and know many people who do, but it hasn’t taken off in nearly the ways people expected. JavaScript is still far in a way dominant.

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Erick Navarro

Phonegap

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Adam Crockett πŸŒ€

Google face screen, I mean glass.