I don't know that it's "demanding" as much as "tedious"... I feel like our entire field is built as a mountain of hacks upon hacks. How the heck did Javascript

I don't know that it's "demanding" as much as "tedious"... I feel like our entire field is built as a mountain of hacks upon hacks. How the heck did Javascript become the dominant programming language of worldwide communications?! The ecosystem is so fragile and unstable (https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2016-d3a717dd577f https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2...) that it seems like most of web dev is keeping up with fashion changes rather than doing anything truly good for the user. Windows Forms supported responsive layouts decades ago, and Visual Studio was a beautiful system to work in... now we have forty dialects of Javascript and twenty thousand CSS mutations served by like four browsers that share mostly the same renderer but still aren't compatible, overseen by standards groups that compete with each other to actually be the standards... sigh... it's like our main output is job security, producing new features to fix the new features from last week, like a ouroboros forever trapped in the matrix. </rant> I just really appreciate people who can code a clean, elegant app, because I can't remember the last time I saw one in the web world!