Hacker News is a misnomer. This is a VC and FAANG mercenary watering hole.

I don’t think people are questioning the move away from a gigacorp owned platform, but it’s the approach, the alternative chosen, and the brash language that are being questioned

I'm not rooting for Microsoft, but comments like this:

> with the remaining rookies eager to inflict some kind of bloated, buggy JavaScript framework on us in the name of progress.

and

> More importantly, Actions is created by monkeys

are juvenile.

While juvenile, it is a fair point that github and all websites that ditch everything for javascript get less snappy to use.

Yea but this is going from the assumption that there aren't benefits to using JavaScript or reasons other than snappiness for introducing new (or in this case a decade old framework).

We don't know how these decisions are made, who is making them, or more importantly, why they're being made. And attributing all of that to the developers being monkeys make me think the author has never actually worked for a real company before or is conveniently forgetting what it's like to.

Oh, so that makes the name calling justified.

Isn't making things more performant a juvenile ideal? as I get older, I no longer care about making things better, just getting it done.

(Not everyone is as polite as you lemon. Seems like the majority of the internet has namecalling tourettes :)

There was a short time period between when Balmer left and the beginning of Windows desktop enshittification with ads and the (frankly insufferable) AI hype where Microsoft appeared to be on the right path. A saner Microsoft acquiring Github could have actually turned out to be a good thing, but alas...

> where Microsoft appeared to be on the right path

Only to the hopelessly naive.