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I am one of those JS guys who like to put JS/Node.js everywhere, but I do not get the problem Redbird is trying to solve: the Express.js doc is quite clear that for serious things, you should use a dedicated http server. [1]

If you just want reverse-proxying, you can choose between the simplicity of Caddy or the power of Nginx (or Apache). Why would I want to run a JS app (that I know will be less performant) to do that?

  [1] https://expressjs.com/en/advanced/best-practice-performance.html

As always, kudos to Canonical to deliver one of the most mature distribution.

But. 2018. And still no fractional scaling. This drives me mad. (changing the text scaling is not a solution).

Ok, there was Mir, Wayland is late (again)... how can this problem not be solved in 10 years? (genuine question)

I guess it is more or less the same everywhere.

Worth to mention the Pioneers of the French Foreign Legion are one of the only soldiers (that I know) who can wear beards. [1]

  [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Foreign_Legion#Pioneers

In the the end, it is just a problem of privacy VS features.

And to be honest, unfortunately, I think most of the average users just want features.

This is kind of already taken by elementary os though.

Prop-types is for runtime, TS does static type checking. Prop-types are terribly verbose and only work with React (what about utils files, external libraries, etc?).

> What's the startup scene in Paris like?

The start-up scene is currently definitely at an interesting point: really young and active (people already shared links to Startup studios, you should have a look at them). The meetup scene is great too.

The salary is still a pity though (compared to the States, Switzerland or Baltic countries). For a middle developer position, you may be around 40K euros, which is "nice in France", but not a lot, especially after paying your taxes.

> How good does my French need to be?

To work, English is fine, to live, it's another problem. French people are usually really kind to people trying to learn French as it's a hard language. If you don't care about french, people won't care about you.

> Are there any languages/platforms/etc. that are popular there more than in Silicon Valley/Fairfax County

There's a bit of everything, but the Web and Robotics are especially important.

People tends to compare GitLab to Github, to me it seems more they compete with VSTS or Atlassian.

CI, project management (epics and roadmaps), monitoring...

Github introduces really few features but seems to make them right, or really limited, but never “bad”.

Gitlab on the opposite, works more with super-fast and open iterations, without hesitating to roll-back if it just doesn’t work.

As a front-end developer, accessibility has always been a way for me to describe to non-technical people what I actually do for a living.

Saying: "I build web applications" means nothing to them, and saying "I create website" makes you look like a wizard doing some black magic.

But saying "my job is to make websites accessible to everyone: we are used to use a screen and a mouse, but what if you are blind or deaf? Those people should not be allowed to go on any website? My role is to make those people able to browse the web, as you and me" give them an example of what kind of problems you actually solve as a web developer.

Of course GitHub stars do not show usage, it shows interest. Considering Vue came later, we can also say its interest grew much faster.

There is no winner anyway, both React and Vue are amazing tools giving you the power to solve the same problem in different ways: building UIs.

Great release. I am still desperately waiting for passive/once events support though. VueJS integrates them in a trivial way:

    <div v-on:scroll.passive="onScroll">...</div>

Would love to have this simplicity in React.