| 1. I think it's pretty clear that the frameworks sold themselves, because it's possible to see the DX benefits with anything beyond a hello world. You don't need Meta's scale. It came from the big companies because they needed it most, not because they are the only ones who benefit. 2. I agree that the frontend-backend split caused a lot of harm and it seems most places are moving on, but it 3. It's a fair assessment that many people don't understand JS well. But it's also a super quirky language with many features that probably should be considered "do-not-use". Things like messing with the prototype chain, purposefully using == instead of === etc.
CSS is even worse. The defaults are weird, which is why everyone uses some form of CSS reset, many things have surprising names and refactoring in a codebase with complex usage of selectors and cascading is a nightmare. But I wouldn't call people trapped in frameworks. It's pretty easy to switch between React, Svelte, Angular and co. A) The gone by days of Java Applet's and Flash weren't so snappy either. Our websites also do much more. A tab of Google docs isn't slower or use more memory than a Word instance. B) No group is ever immune to arrogance. But sure, if you write vanilla JS instead of TS, I'd think that's an odd choice. I'm not saying you can't make good things with Vanilla JS, but I don't see how that makes the Web more "sane". LLM: When it comes to coding tools LLMs are not so different from humans in what helps them. They benefit just as much from the cleaner control flow of reactive frameworks (compared to jQuery), colocation of JSX and tailwind and typechecking of TS as us humans. Mess: Has the Web really been such a mess lately? I think most of the messiness is far behind us. JS+HTML5 winning out against Flash and Java, standardization across browsers, XML or HTML.
Was it worse than Microsoft reinventing their Windows UI framework every couple of years? |