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by jdmichal 931 days ago
The web is essentially UI development. And UI frameworks and libraries have always had lots of churn. Even ultra-conservative Java has had AWT, Swing, and a couple varieties of JavaFX. And then a few more developed by other groups like SWT. The expectations of both developers and users increase as computers advance, and older frameworks can't always keep up.