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> One of the most confusing things I find with web development (which I'm mostly new to, coming from a backend background) is that everyone seems entirely happy
by seanwilson 9y ago
> One of the most confusing things I find with web development (which I'm mostly new to, coming from a backend background) is that everyone seems entirely happy with JS (or more accurately the DOM?) and CSS being giant mutable state buckets.
Why is it surprising that people are working within the constraints of what is practical right now? What are you going to use instead that is so much better? If you want to do web development, you have to use CSS and JavaScript in some form. Just with backend work, there are good and bad ways of doing frontend coding.