[lioeters]

Yeah.. It's become a cliché that web developers, especially in the JavaScript ecosystem, are always chasing after what's "new and shiny". This leads to constant churn, new frameworks and libraries that reinvent the wheel, endless stuff to learn and catch up. It gets tiring after a while.

So the old-timers remind us, "Choose boring technology." Reliable and boring is a good thing.

On the other hand, I recently started learning Bun, and oh what a breath of fresh air, it makes things fun again. I love that its codebase is so readable and small still, and everything is freshly designed with the insights of experience and hindsight. It doesn't have the accumulated cruft, years of decisions and compromises.

So, sometimes it's great to shed the old and grow with the new generation.