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The browsers have been very good incorporating ideas from the community into the browser, and strengthening the standards every time. Things started getting rea
by javajosh 3y ago
The browsers have been very good incorporating ideas from the community into the browser, and strengthening the standards every time. Things started getting really good with ES6, HTML5 and CSS3, and when IE went entirely away, and most browsers are evergreen, it's actually a much different universe now.
Apart from being pleasant and fast to work with, the benefit of coding without a build step is to the community, as it allows us to learn from each other's code, as in the early days.
- cxr 3y ago> the benefit of coding without a build step is to the community Programmers don't necessarily want things to be easy. It thwarts the ability to practice resume-driven development and extract money from consulting schemes* and/or draw salaries where a substantial part of the worker's dayjob is in dealing with stuff that isn't strictly necessary (or even a good idea to start with). To frame it another way, high barriers to entry are virtually synonymous with better job security whereas lower barriers lead to increased competition in the job market. * This is more in the realm of "emergent phenomena" and "revealed preference" than it is conscious scheming, but it's not any less real.