The killer feature is web dev is: people can see your stuff. Instantly. That's so powerful that, over time, it ends up sucking a lot of devs in, who do great w

The killer feature is web dev is: people can see your stuff. Instantly. That's so powerful that, over time, it ends up sucking a lot of devs in, who do great work which struggles with visibility. Like I could probably look up a Haskell library right now which is a monumental feat of software engineering, that has like 1k users, total. Then I could look up some web dev app that's piss poor compared to that, which has like 1 million users. That ends up exerting a gravitational pull over time, and that's why web dev dominates the software development discourse.