I applaud the effort, but projects like this (and/or rather it’s dependencies) make me realise how truly distant we are from the Web I grew up with: a hypertext

I applaud the effort, but projects like this (and/or rather it’s dependencies) make me realise how truly distant we are from the Web I grew up with: a hypertextual document model. Now we’ve got a heavyweight thick-client-orientated client/server runtime environment. And not a very well designed one, at that. Things were almost sensible until just after AJAX. What we have now is just totally unfathomable.