[echelon]

Write in a language that compiles to another language that itself compiles to markup...

The web frontend world is crazy to a backend engineer. We have hard problems to solve too, but ours usually arise from well-understood problems, such as CAP theorem.

[always_good]

It's somewhat jarring when people use "we" as if they're in a faction and they're the spokesperson of that faction. It's almost as bad as using "you guys" when faced with a single commenter.

Anyways, you can't think of a single analogue for the emblem->handlebars example?

[echelon]

It's because my colleagues generally consider the frontend landscape to be the Wild West.

The only analog I can think of is statically typed SQL, which is in fact awesome.

[daliwali]

It's crazy, sometimes web frontend is an echo chamber and you will get burned to the stake if you suggest doing anything simpler like just writing markup instead of a template language that translates to markup or a language that translates to that language that translates to markup. But it keeps people employed.

[douche]

Some days, I can handle the front-end world. Other days, I just want to go back to writing old-school desktop clients in VB6 or WinForms. Mostly, this state has to do with whether the Goldbergian accretion of tooling on the front-end side is working today, or if somebody has deprecated a package and brought the whole Jenga tower down.