[forthefuture]

It's so interesting to me that so many people complain and no one does anything.

If Javascript is so bad just make any other JIT compiler run in browsers. Defeat the argument with action.

I'm comfortable with my build process. I have a package.json and a gulpfile.js. I run npm i, then gulp dev. For every new project this is automatic.

Don't follow trends if you don't want to, but I don't believe anything in the OP was difficult if you understand why you're doing it and learn it properly.

[grabcocque]

The proliferation of frameworks is people's attempts to do something about it. But then XKCD 927 applies.

[kzisme]

Link for the lazy: https://xkcd.com/927/

[Eire_Banshee]

We cant force browsers to support other front end languages. JS is the only reasonable choice for front end development, Dart didn't end up going anywhere.

[forthefuture]

Why would you force anyone to do anything?

Just do it. You've got dozens of these threads full of competent software engineers and no one can put 10/100 people together and fix this?

I think it's easy to not want to learn something. It's hard to read this article and say "hey I want to learn all of that". But because it is hard it is valuable.