>Web dev has become rocket science for those who started in this business in the late 90's Curious about what more contemporary stuff you've experimented with

>Web dev has become rocket science for those who started in this business in the late 90's Curious about what more contemporary stuff you've experimented with vs. what you're comfortable with. The pop cycle is real. For instance, one of yesterday's top posts was about htmx, which is cool enough, but it's one of those things that's very opinionated about bundling content, presentation, and behavior, and which advocates for hypertext over consumer-neutral serialization formats. All of that was de rigueur not so long ago, and then heresy in the '00s. Yet, it works, and you can drop in it and get it working in like 2 minutes. I feel the same way as I suppose you do about a lot of popular toolchains for web work. Babel and webpack are beasts and definitely do remind me of some of the performance art-level stuff with autoconf and make. I work on some of this stuff in my spare time. Always happy to hear anecdotes.