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1. Stuart Langridge 2 min later

   @zachleat this is an alarmingly good analogy. Every time I think about it in a bit more detail it reveals another layer of how well it captures the whole situation

   1. Zach Leatherman 3 min later

      @sil lightning has struck! 😅

      the timelines are similar too 🤔

2. Khalid ⚡ 3 min later

   @zachleat What is D-HTML?

   1. Zach Leatherman 4 min later

      @khalidabuhakmeh a javascript framework to toggle tailwind classes dynamically

      1. twifkak 5 hr later

         @zachleat @khalidabuhakmeh that is a <layer>ed joke

3. Charlie O’Hara 36 min later

   @zachleat "web components are usb-c" This could be a great metaphor! It could also be a truly terrible metaphor that makes web components sound awful!

   1. Zach Leatherman 59 min later

      @awfulwoman well wait I like usb-c 😅

      1. Charlie O’Hara 1 hr later

         @zachleat *stares in DP Alt Mode*

         1. Martin Marconcini 17 hr later

            @awfulwoman @zachleat that would be XML perhaps :)

      2. Jan Lehnardt 1 hr later

         @zachleat @awfulwoman sometimes web components only carry power, sometimes power and data, sometimes more power, sometimes more data and all possible combinations while looking all the same ;D

4. Cory Birdsong 1 hr later

   @zachleat I understand the spirit of this analogy but at the same time lightning is substantially less technically complex than USB-C

   1. Zach Leatherman 6 days later

      @cbirdsong web components are substantially more technically complex than react as they involve changes to the web platform (though that complexity is abstracted from developers) 😅 (we can belabor it into place)

      1. Cory Birdsong 7 days later

         @zachleat lightning abstracts away a bunch of complexity in how it dynamically reassigns pins depending on the task, but in general as a user i can plug it in and it works, whereas USB-C attempts to do so much more than lightning ever did, and as a result as a user I need to be aware of the power and data throughput capabilities of the two devices as well as the cable itself

         1. Cory Birdsong 7 days later

            @zachleat (I am absolutely not one of those weirdos that actually wanted to keep a lightning port on my phone, but I do recognize USB-C is not an across-the-board improvement for every situation)

5. Flo Gehring 1 hr later

   @zachleat more like USB-A 😬

6. jake lazaroff 2 hr later

   @zachleat
   backbone is the 30-pin connector
   jquery is USB-A
   prototype is PS/2

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8. Koos 3 hr later

   @zachleat so to not get blocked in the EU, you need to get rid of React on your website

9. Tane Piper ⁂ 15 hr later

   @zachleat @divdev All of @teskooano is web components and vanilla - not a lick of a framework anywhere.

   This is what's possible - https://teskooano.space