I'll agree that SPAs are a bit of a departure for folks who have been building legacy ASP.NET or JSP / Java Request / Response apps.
There are some new things they must learn, so they may have a higher learning curve. Additionally the technology is really unstable. The build tools for example (webpack, babel, gulp, grunt) have changed tremendously and in breaking fashion now drastically over the past 4-5 years.
Lots of legacy technology has stable tooling and so a more "seasoned" programmer may be a bit put off by that. Maybe that's this guys's problem.
He should Green Egg's and Ham this mofo and just "try it" earnestly before writing a total dump of a blog post and sharing it on Hacker news.
There are some new things they must learn, so they may have a higher learning curve. Additionally the technology is really unstable. The build tools for example (webpack, babel, gulp, grunt) have changed tremendously and in breaking fashion now drastically over the past 4-5 years.
Lots of legacy technology has stable tooling and so a more "seasoned" programmer may be a bit put off by that. Maybe that's this guys's problem.
He should Green Egg's and Ham this mofo and just "try it" earnestly before writing a total dump of a blog post and sharing it on Hacker news.