Why does everything have to be a video? Write an article, wtf. I’m not watching a video with a clickbait title like this
Agreed, but the reason why is this is how you make money. Videos can be monetized more easily.
The problem with desperate monetization stunts like this video is that they rarely have any relevant content to show, and they are a formulaic output of mixing clickbait titles with 15min of inane fluff.
But that’s not true for all channels. I quite like this one, and when I like the content, I’m a little less harsh about the clickbait because I understand that it may be required to make meaningful money on YouTube.
You are right, but: Medium, Substack, Patreon, Kofi. Being a writer/blogger was a death sentence 10 years ago but the avenues for doing it are growing again.
Realistically, it’s a question of reach. Most people do not read articles, and the few that do are not reading very many very often. In contrast, there is a massive audience of YouTube consumers, even for this kind of nice interest. And unfortunately, the YouTube algorithm is better at promoting this content than posting articles on Lemmy and Hacker News will ever be. So, if you’re trying to share your insights with the latest crowd within your interest, YouTube is obviously the superior way to do that. Not to mention most JS developers live on YouTube, even when they’re working.
Also, I don’t think this title is clickbait at all. The thesis of the video is that the ecosystem of JS/Web Dev tooling is all being (or already has been) explosively re-written in rust.
I actually agree, I much prefer articles. However, I found this interesting since it looked at turbopack, parcel, rspack and others and talked about how it comes that the JavaScript ecosystem seems to start to use a lot of rust for their tooling. It was quite long though…
I like the format. Same thing when I see an article posted on medium. Those two save me so much time
