> I wish the front end community tried to make existing things better instead of reinventing the wheel every year and causing immense fragmentation, especially

> I wish the front end community tried to make existing things better instead of reinventing the wheel every year and causing immense fragmentation, especially for something like the build toolchain. This is simply a false statement. Chrome increases its dominance every year, which actually makes it a lot easier to write frontend code, but that isn't necessarily "better". In other areas: - Typescript has been a huge boon to the ecosystem and is widely adopted - Babel is the standard for transpiling code and has allowed for all these compile-to-JS projects to exist - ESBuild/SWC exist if you want to do things faster and less flexibly, but they're still a minor part of the ecosystem - React has existed for nearly a decade and continues to enjoy regular updates and an enormous community