I agree. I recently started learning front end development. My reaction after grasping what modern frameworks do is “my god, what have we done?” It seems like w

I agree. I recently started learning front end development. My reaction after grasping what modern frameworks do is “my god, what have we done?” It seems like we’ve expended a huge amount of effort to hack the web into something we can build SPAs in (and what an insightful TLA that is). I wonder if this sort of situation was inevitable or, given sufficient coordination and standardisation, we could have built a better platform. There are some problems that would have to be overcome regardless (eg arbitrary display size[1]) but languages like CSS and JavaScript look like very bad decisions. My first instinct is that a new platform should be developed based as far as much as possible on tried and tested languages and technologies, but one that also allows for fast-paced browser dev and a path for future evolution. For now I’m just embracing it and learning. It’s a lot of fun to see how the web works nowadays - I’m already beginning to understand some of the types of bugs that sites exhibit, and why designs are as they are. One of the outcomes has been to develop serious respect for the developers of MS and Google Web apps - eg OneNote on the web - as what they’ve achieved is pretty miraculous when you consider the stack. And those poor web browser devs! [1] the idea of allowing arbitrary dimensions displays is a very strange one if you consider traditional graphic design; this may be an instance of us geeks making decisions that don’t make sense to more experienced professionals from other backgrounds. How much did graphic designers, UX experts, psychologists etc impact the evolution of the web standards? I don’t know.