[tekkk]

So you have seen the JS world progressing and feel sad about that they haven't just found out the "best way" from the beginning? I think it's marvelous how fast JS moves and outdated solutions are phased out in new projects for better and more reliable methods (although I admit some JS developers pick the wrong tools for wrong reasons). The act of having to constantly learn and think about a better way of doing things has at least kept me sharp and meticulously pondering the pros and cons of each way of doing things.

Sure the churn can be discouraging and if you wanted to be able to write the same way with same tools to retirement I wonder why you'd even consider doing frontend development. I am quite happy with the tools I use (Typescript, React, Mobx, StyledComponents) and have felt no need to change for something else. They are tools I am very productive with, and all the developers I've worked with have been able to get quickly on track with using them. No huge mental leap from JS to TS as with functional languages like Clojure or Elm.

Although it's my opinion that, JS itself should be eventually be phased out for something better for majority of frontend software. It just has too much old baggage so it would be best to just switch for something new completely. However, there's something mysteriously intriguing about JS in that allows so great flexibility, in good and bad, that not just any language can replace it. But nowadays I don't do much complaining about JS stuff anymore. I have found my sweet spot and I'm mostly just busy getting stuff done and there's things far worse in programming than how "bad JS is".