When I reimplemented a React component as the first Glimmer DSL for Web Component in my job’s Fintech Rails web app, I thought I did what would have taken 1 week in React in 1.5 days in Glimmer, which seemed like a great improvement in productivity at the time (333.33% the productivity if we count 1 week of React as 5 business days). I recently inspected the Git timeline of the original React component, and discovered that it actually took 1.5 months to develop initially!!!
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