I can only assume you're in a bubble, then. Perhaps me too. But Francis' actions only make sense in the context of meeting stiff resistance from some parts of the church, therefore by Occam's razor someone must be doing the resisting. Any institution as large and old as the Church (and there are very few peers) has a huge amount of institutional inertia, and being brought in specifically to be a reformer was bound to earn him some enemies.
> As a Catholic this is news to me. I like the Pope, thought he was good. In fact I haven't heard any other Catholics I know criticize him.
It's possible that the catholics you hang out with are not the most conservative factions (e.g. the ones who still gnash teeth over Vatican II), which are the ones fuming over Francis.
> In fact I haven't heard any other Catholics I know criticize him.
>I feel this article is trying to "Stir up a storm" with sensational language. There is little behind this in my opinion.
While i can't speak about the part of catholics you know, nor about conservative wings of the catholic church (and the size of said wing), there are atleast some US-Conservatives claiming to be catholic with grievances about the pope:
I invite you to visit Poland. One of the most - nominally - catholic countries.
A few months ago there was a radio show, with a quiz. "What town was the Pope born in ?". Naturally, Wadowice, because there's implicit understanding that John Paul II from Poland was the Pope. People rarely even mention Francis except to rant on him. There's full-blown denial. Most catholics seem to pretend Francis doesn't exist.
Poles like to brag how Catholic they are, but they're Catholic in name. Most don't follow teachings, they just went to church to avoid ostracism. Case in point: there was a media outrage when a prominent figure said Jesus was a refugee. When my brother was in primary school around 30 years ago, he was regularly beaten by his peers because he didn't want to attend religion lessons (in school, no less).
People bend over backwards to justify their xenophobic, homophobic, misogynist etc. behavior.
A major hierarch in Polish Church, Tadeusz Rydzyk, is 70% businessman 30% priest. He commands his own "schism" while pretending he is catholic. He has much influence among old, helpless, angry people. Despite blatantly engaging in politics (like many other priests), numerous instances of hate speech, antisemitism and other transgressions he remains in power, and Church doesn't expel him. The word is they deem him useful, because - although highly controversial - people listen to him. Geothermal energy, media schools, his own TV, and especially the radio station. His total income was recently estimated as 55,000,000 PLN (15.1184 million U.S. dollars). He's 88th on the list of the wealthiest Poles. And since autumn 2015 he received 26.5M + 139.6K + 250K + 710K + 200K + 105.2K + nearly 3M + 70.6K + 59.3K + 120K +11.6K + 216K PLN from various government institutions. Under various pretexts, like payment for coaching of judges, for his media school, newspapers. That's not counting tenders he regularly wins, or land he (and other priests) often buy at 10% or so of nominal value. His radio station doesn't run on advertisments, except ads of his own products and services. It runs on donations. And he constantly complains how little money he has.
Teachings of Jesus are hard to live by and demand self-sacrifice. Relatively poor (to the rest of Europe) and thus highly materialistic, envious, petty Poles don't like that. Love thy enemy ? If someone hits you, expose the other cheek ? Charity ? NO WAY. Once upon a time I had a twisted ankle, and walked slowly with crutches. Suddenly a car stopped by and the driver offered to give me a ride. Then it hit me - I've never received a similar offer before. You see, the driver spoke in English. It's hard to notice something is missing in your country until you've seen the difference.
I have built applications using React and most recently Vue2.
Both are very very similar and if you are familiar with one you will be able to pick up the other quite easily.
In regards to webpages both are capable of doing the same things and fit the same uses cases.
That said however if I was to start a greenfield application today, I would choose React.
The reason for this is that react is better known, it is easier to find solutions for, and it has more mature guidelines for things like project structure and best practices.
Vue is good competition for React and it will certainly help keep it on it's toes.
However in regards to longevity, I feel React will be around a lot longer than Vue.
React has the full support of facebook and is being used by other major vendors.
Vue is also used by some big sites, however it has no official backing that I know of and is maintained by a "Benevolent dictator for life".
In a year or two I predict that I will see another article with a title along the lines of "Switching From React To <insert new hotness here>". It is very unlikely in my opinion that I will see a "Switching From Vue To <insert new hotness here>" article.
Vue is backed by one of the biggest companies in China. You need to do more research. Vue is more popular in China than React. I would say I would rather start a new an app using Vue because of the learning curve is a lot faster to pick up than React.
A non-trivial amount of info and discussion around Vue (esp. third-party packages) is in Chinese. Whether that's a plus or a minus depends on whether you understand the language.
I have started to use museUI. A material UI library based on vuejs. It is also mostly in Chinese. I was reluctant initially but made the jump.
Then one day I had an issue. Posted it. Interestingly some other guy posted a PR to solve that. And it got merged the next day. So it ended well for me. But can't say that for other repos. Just my experience.
That's for sure a minus, even if you speak the language. You are restricted to a smaller subset of developers that can improve the ecosystem (and let's be frank that most good developers should know English but not Chinese, internationally speaking).
The logic may not be sound as you cannot tell for sure if there are more English speaking front end developers or Chinese-only speaking ones, given the population of China.
> I would say I would rather start a new an app using Vue because of the learning curve is a lot faster to pick up than React.
When we're talking frameworks that you'll use again and again I don't really think this is a factor. You'll only need to pick it up once. I'm a lot more concerned about long term maintainability.
If we move away from only spa appications vue has other use cases. For a Rails / PHP site that only needs small amount of javascript vue feels like a natural choice to replace some of the existing jquery
That's not strictly true: vanilla React doesn't even use a router until you wire one up. It's perfectly cromulent to use just few bits of React on an existing web app/site.
I read through the differences, and they seem small enough that for any decently sized project with a non-trivial team you'd choose React and in most cases probably not even consider Vue.
>In a year or two I predict that I will see another article with a title along the lines of "Switching From React To <insert new hotness here>". It is very unlikely in my opinion that I will see a "Switching From Vue To <insert new hotness here>" article.
That might also be because once people get to Vue, they don't leave it for any "new hotness".
In JS maybe. But I don't think there's anything fatalistic about it. There are still C, C++, Lisp, even Pascal etc codebases maintained and liked just fine.
It's about maturity and churn, not something inherent in programming.
Until most communities naturally dissolve into "subreddit"-esque groups where users share similar views to enjoy validation and avoid being downvoted. Explicitly encouraging opposing viewpoints may help alleviate this problem.
Not really. It just encourages people to fight for their team.
You need a place where there are no teams, where it's not A vs. B, but a place where you're tackling smaller problems and talking solutions which can be understood and validated.
By not available what do you mean?