Web tooling on the browser side is amazing, but until relatively recently the build tooling was so bad I'd easily put it on par with C/C++. Not as bad mind you,

Web tooling on the browser side is amazing, but until relatively recently the build tooling was so bad I'd easily put it on par with C/C++. Not as bad mind you, since package management is better, but otherwise I'd rank both as from the same layer of hell and in the same ballpark in terms of suffering. The only thing that rose to the level of debugging webpack configs for me recently is debugging the build for a QT app that linked against non-system KDE libs. Now if you know what you're doing it's much better now that everyone has converged on ES6 modules and with the latest generation of build tools like Vite, all you need to do is npm install some packages to provide zero-config support for frameworks like React, Svelte, etc. But it used to be so much worse.