>That said, I'm not saying no frameworks/libraries/tools, and am okay minimizing. But I'd rather use Vue, React, Redux and other libraries/patterns than not in

>That said, I'm not saying no frameworks/libraries/tools, and am okay minimizing. But I'd rather use Vue, React, Redux and other libraries/patterns than not in most cases, and find them better overall than ad-hoc jQuery. And don't get me wrong, I've written a lot of ad-hoc and organized code without modern tooling. I'll take today's module systems, builders and bundlers. I realize I'm outside the mainstream schools of thought. My approach to developing software absolutely depends on having a rare and special kind of developer doing the work. The emphasis is on deep expertise in the core technologies - JS, HTML and CSS -- that will stay around while fads come and go. And quite frankly, my approach does not scale well. It's not that I couldn't keep 40 developers of the caliber I require productive, it's just nigh on impossible for a non-Google-class company to hire that many in one place. (Considering all you've heard about Google's hiring process, imagine how much it costs them to hire a single developer -- even before the first paycheck is cut.) >As to Java hello world, frankly every time I've had to touch a Java project, it takes 2-3 days to get a build environment running on a local dev machine... it's nightmarish. I've never even taken to learning Java from scratch my exposure has been so bad. Maybe you're reversing cause and effect. Maybe your exposure has been so bad because you've never made the effort to learn it from scratch. When I adopt a technology for use, I go really deep. I'll get a book, start on page 1, and work through it to the end. (Sometimes I might deem the last few chapters skippable.) After a few months I'll re-read parts of it as a refresher. (That has proven super-helpful.) That's why I think Reactjs and its like are a lot of fuss and bother to do something that I can already do easily with a lot fewer moving parts. And also, if I decide to use React, I, and (perhaps to a slightly lesser extent) my developers, will go deep into it, and that takes a lot of time and effort. So I have to be very judicious in what new shiny thing I go chasing after. I need to see an obvious, significant return on that type of investment. (I don't care about my resume having the latest buzzwords.) And I just don't see it with any of these frameworks.