[webXL]

loathe? I loathe public speaking and flossing, but these things are good for me, and I'm sure you wouldn't be doing frontend dev if there wasn't a big upside that it made possible.

> teetering Jenga tower of hacks?

How is any programming language not capable of being brittle?

[niccaluim]

This isn't about a language. It's about the whole stack.

I've been programming since before the web was invented. The web, as a development platform, is the worst layer-cake of kludges I've ever seen.

[webXL]

Fine. Name a better stack then and suggest ways this one can improve.