[mattgreenrocks]

It’s a uniquely mind-numbing medium for me.

Confluence of:

* feels like it’s made for marketing first and foremost

* vague sense of jankiness that you can’t escape

* pervasively string-typed

* JS community

* low abstraction level of web frameworks. You spend lots of time cramming information into/out of URLs

* things don’t feel ready to go out of the box

I feel more productive going slower with native apps. It’s a paradox of perception.

[jakelazaroff]

Funny, I think the stringly-typed-ness is great. Turns out that’s actually a common aspect of a lot of software I really admire, like Unix pipes and spreadsheets.

[mattgreenrocks]

I don't mind it when the data being pushed through is less-structured. Once it gets past a certain point, I just want types backing everything up and double-checking my work as I go.