[kurtbuilds]

You are anxious about things constantly breaking, and you work in Javascript. No surprise.

Try learning Rust.

Your anxiety of things constantly breaking will disappear.

I've been coding for about 20 years. My joy of coding would be gone if not for Rust. Instead, writing code is my primary hobby today, in addition to it being (part of) my job professionally.

[sliken]

I do feel like technology has let the public down. Ransomware, identity theft, fake news, social media, etc. Things like memory safety used to be discussed in the most technical of circles. However computer security is impacting society as a whole, seems like the entire planet has had their identity stolen. Now Congress, NSA, CISA, and even Consumer Reports are discussing memory safety. Sure Rust is a small piece of secure computing, but it's a step in the right direction.

[sockaddr]

This is my approach to solve this same problem for myself.

I wanted a more deterministic and reasoned approach to things. Also as another person stated elsewhere, practicing minimalistic engineering where you roll your own instead of mindlessly bringing in another library can help sometimes.