After working with new age frameworks (SwiftUI, Compose, Flutter), I’m rediscovering web development (last time I’ve touched it was more than 10 years ago). I

After working with new age frameworks (SwiftUI, Compose, Flutter), I’m rediscovering web development (last time I’ve touched it was more than 10 years ago). I can’t believe how far modern web jumped. Development process, modern ES features, reliable CSS, amount of learning resources. I will never understand why would you sacrifice all of this for something like Compose/Flutter, with their janky web performance, clunky, baroque toolchains and nonexistent (compared to pool of JS developers) mindshare. To start with Compose you need to: Install Java Install Intellij Somehow generate working project Wrestle for half a day with Gradle Search for ever changing APIs or updates Find a way to reference html and CSS Somehow connect all of this together and finally launch in the browser After that - good luck debugging black box generated by Kotlin compiler And now compare this to JS/CSS/HTML: Most likely you already have modern enough browser Create file wherever python3 -m http.server Done.