[throwaway14356]

I think new features move into the browsers pretty fast nowadays? The new stuff introduced is overly hipster. The old stuff still needs a lot of polish. We keep getting the means to do all kinds of new things but it (by lack of better words) progresses forwards. The sum of things adds up to greater things. The (almost) opposite approach is to look what people are doing then make a single thing that does that directly, without 100 weird steps. Update it to make it better just like modules do. Everything html does looks like it was slapped together in a weekend. If you look at the spec it is obvious a lot of work went in but the default behavior never fails to disappoint. Some examples out of hundreds: we wanted a range selector and a slider, we got a slider and they called it range. How do I do a range now and make it look the same as the slider? Oh, I write both from scratch? lmao Half of json's greatness is in how sad the xml tools are but if I compare both to sql I wonder how I get any work done at all! Imagine a form was just a json. Like json in and json out. Dynamically creating form fields and populating them from a deeply nested json, allowing the user to add fields, then trying to get the json toothpaste back into the tube was a truly hilarious adventure. I eventually just set the attribute value to the value of the form field then stored the html in the db. Did you know js has an xpath implementation? Not that one could use it but there it is. haha

I really think with some love we could just go back to writing html/js/css directly. Maybe it is just that I fail to see the point of nodejs.