[my69thaccount]

On one hand, JavaScript being easy makes programming accessible. On the other hand, the state of programming is terrible and getting worse. So you can't say if it's bad or not.

[RussianCow]

> On the other hand, the state of programming is terrible and getting worse.

What does this mean? It's an order of magnitude easier to build an app/service/whatever today than it was a decade ago. Having to maintain separate code paths for IE because it doesn't support many of the APIs and CSS features you need was "terrible"; by comparison, engineering today is heavenly.

[my69thaccount]

Engineering might be easier, the user experience is magnitudes worse than a decade ago, pretty much universally.

[kupopuffs]

it's not getting worse. you're just getting older

[jonny_eh]

100%. If people want to still use Wordperfect 5.1, they still can.

[wy35]

It’s not getting worse. Go ahead and make a relatively complex app with jQuery 2.0 and let me know how it compares to spinning up a Next.js app.

[my69thaccount]

Or better yet, you could use neither! If it helps you remember, JavaScript is bad, so more JavaScript is more bad.