[havercosine]

I hear your sentiment. As a backend / ML guy who tried to ship projects as a solo dev: I do understand JS/HTML. I understand the programming model of web and still build things the conventional way: templating on server which returns HTML. But lot of time still goes in CSS, to get things exactly working the way we want.

The catch is trying to keep up with Javascript complexity. Javascript/react world is entirely different beast. Spent some time understanding class based React. But then things moved to hooks. I sort of started grokking hooks. But now there is new clamour (not yet mainstream) about something new like server side components or signals or hydration or what not. Same is the case with Svelte. I tried the basic tutorials, understood it. But Svelte kit started talking about 100 different ideas about server pre-rendering components etc. I thought why bother? Jinja2 templating and bit of inline JS looked a better option.

Python devs want to stick to Python because it is still second best language to get something out there, quickly. Except for UI. Currently I'm looking into using HTMX as much as possible. If this thing solves for UI side of it then I'll definitely give it a try.