I always joke with my students that the most popular projects in js are designed to not write js. Tongue in cheek but still, webpack, babel, react, jquery, cof

I always joke with my students that the most popular projects in js are designed to not write js. Tongue in cheek but still, webpack, babel, react, jquery, coffeescript, lowdash and typescript are all attempts to make the pain of using the js ecosystem go away by patching in things that has existed for decades elsewhere at the price of huge infrastructure and organisational cost. That such a terrible tech remains with a monopoly on the most popular and awesome platform in the world still astonishes me to this day. And humbles me in a way. But what infuriates me is that a lot of js devs will actually claim that it's great. The stockholm syndrom is strong indeed.