New for the sake of being new is not engineering, it's fashion. Programming fundamentally is a problem solving discipline which means the tools I adopt and use

New for the sake of being new is not engineering, it's fashion. Programming fundamentally is a problem solving discipline which means the tools I adopt and use at the end of the day are about augmenting my ability to solve new and novel problems instead of spinning my wheels in place and re-writing yet another old library in the new language du jour. The JavaScript framework/application ecosystem could use less fashion and more engineering. That doesn't mean I don't think that spider is cool. In fact the list of language features is really well thought out.