Every time there is a paradigm shift, two teams are shaped.

🔵 One that defends the status quo

🔴 Another that tries to change things

In the journey creating Polipo (https://www.polipo.io/), the first Figma compiler, we meet with both.

We know for a fact that when the work of a front-end engineer (or a full stack most of the time) is spent implementing a Figma design in code, 50% or more of his time is spent as shown in this silly meme.

We created a technology that empowers engineers to skip in full steps they have been doing for the past 30 years.

Here are the reactions we get:

• Pure love,
• Skepticism,
• Plain hate.

It makes us reflect on how software engineers, for good and bad, are the real gatekeepers for innovation in their field.

And it applies in every field to the ultimate users of a technology.

The users are the modern day kings.

They decide everything.

Including whether society progresses or not.

Food for thoughts from a developer tools maker.