Yeah, professional web dev is not for me, though it seems I'm not the only one lamenting the state of affairs. It seems that it's not just the frameworks that

Yeah, professional web dev is not for me, though it seems I'm not the only one lamenting the state of affairs. It seems that it's not just the frameworks that are thrown away in 3 years, but sometimes the products built with them too! I think learning new "frameworks and methodologies" only makes you a better developer to the degree that they are well thought-out. It seems like a lot of JavaScript stuff is basically still in a state of flux, where people are experimenting and figuring things out. I spent a lot of time learning Python, C++, C, R, bash, OCaml, and HTML/CSS/JavaScript. All those things have lasting value, and I expect to be using them in 5 years, and probably most of them in 20 years. I would say jQuery has lasting value, since it has an elegant data-driven / document-driven model. I look a new things to understand if they have lasting value. React does seem principled to me, and I was interested in playing with it, although these threads have what dampened the enthusiasm. I am using HTML/CSS/JS to display statistics and visualizations, and it works perfectly for that. In any case, I do think there is a problem where a lot of front end devs don't actually understand the abstractions the browser presents. It's basically the same problem as Python or Ruby programmers not understanding what syscalls are and writing horrifically slow code.