[peteforde]

I wonder if someone quantified the millions of hours wasted by OCD bikeshedders moving their projects over to the latest, not-necessarily better new thing offering vague utility improvements over the thing that was just starting to feel comfortable... if the JS community would stop churning their north star toolset every 18-24 months.

Seriously: it's like you're trying to nuke the moon. This is why people legitimately grief about "the ecosystem".

[hising]

Awesome with new ideas and approaches to things. Just because someone have taken time to solve things differently does not automagically imply that this is something that forces someone to throw old stuff out. Strange comment IMO.

[scient]

I think he is pretty spot on. JS community is infamous for the constant replacement of tools with the next shiny thing, which are all built on a house of cards (one-line npm packages). I would rather see some more serious tools being put out and matured instead of this constant running around.

My own personal theory is that because the barrier of entry is so low, people get a little too excited about being a contributor and solving a problem "differently" (sometimes before even understanding the problem space well enough). In short - lot of it is inexperience.

[zebogen]

You might be right, but "serious" tools have to start somewhere. We shouldn't be trying to shut out new ideas and approaches because we feel that there are too many different tools available. Any project should be judged on its merits. And any ecosystem needs new projects to move forward. If you don't like it, don't use it.

[chrshawkes]

Correct. In no way is this tool a webpack killer. Webpack solves a lot of problems that clearly this author of this post is not familiar with based on the clickbaity title.

[lastmjs]

I believe most if not all of the missing features can be addressed and eventually Zwitterion could replace Webpack. I believe that non-bundlers will replace bundlers. Also, not all of the features Webpack provides I believe are necessary (like bundling) in forward-facing applications.

[karlshea]

> Strange comment IMO.

You must be new to JS then. Come revisit your reply when you try and work on any JS project no one has touched for a year.

[hising]

Nah, been doing it professionally since 1997.