[coldnebo]

Must be a server-side dev. Java client-side trainwrecks include: struts, tempest, Java Server Faces, AWT, Swing.

True it's unfair to blame Java alone for these, because client side is more difficult-- we've been searching for solutions for decades in a variety of languages.

Modern front-end is a mush of dozens of tools/contexts, etc. Way more complex than TeX, and way less reliable and with minimal debugging context. But as the Eve guys have said, we're using the same layering of precompilers and interpreters we've always done. It's a mess because it's not just Java (or Python or Ruby) it's CSS HTML JS XML JSON, and the whole rest of the alphabet soup.

It's about time we reconsider platform as a whole again rather than merely a sum of fragments. That's why I find Eve interesting.