> Untold amounts of human effort are exhausted globally every day on rebuilding identical components for web apps. This should not be the case. The UI community should standardize namings and structures for common components.
It's so tempting to think of all the efficiency that could be gained if we'd stop replicating the same work and just all decide how to do things 'right', unfortunately though this isn't how the best results are achieved.
This is fundamentally a conversation about markets - in this case for ideas. Lots of parallel work is done in a distributed manner, much of it is wasted, but because of the competition between and combination of different ideas, you get emergent results that are really finely tuned to what people actually want in practice.
Top down planning won't get you this. You'll have less waste, to be sure, but you'll also have inferior results.
It's so tempting to think of all the efficiency that could be gained if we'd stop replicating the same work and just all decide how to do things 'right', unfortunately though this isn't how the best results are achieved.
This is fundamentally a conversation about markets - in this case for ideas. Lots of parallel work is done in a distributed manner, much of it is wasted, but because of the competition between and combination of different ideas, you get emergent results that are really finely tuned to what people actually want in practice.
Top down planning won't get you this. You'll have less waste, to be sure, but you'll also have inferior results.