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As someone who’s only dabbled in “modern“ front end (mainly a small project built with web components, my bread and butter is native desktop/mobile), I can’t he
by jwells89 3y ago
As someone who’s only dabbled in “modern“ front end (mainly a small project built with web components, my bread and butter is native desktop/mobile), I can’t help but think what continues to hold the web back from achieving something like VB6 is its batteries-not-included nature.
As long as it’s necessary to re-invent wheels by building basic widgets from scratch, there’s going to be limits to how good the developer experience of front end web can be, as well as high churn because the common base that’s being built upon is so tiny. It’s like building a skyscraper atop of a food cart: technically possible, but all “solutions” are so stilted and full of trade-offs that there can be no consensus and inordinate amounts of energy get burned on constant re-engineering of the stilts.