> But my god the cognitive load involved in swimming through all of the "this library literally saves THE WORLD" marketing fluff is intense. The problem with j

> But my god the cognitive load involved in swimming through all of the "this library literally saves THE WORLD" marketing fluff is intense. The problem with javascript libraries and frameworks is that, since the language itself has so many warts and quirks, it's easy to make a lot of "progress" patching over them with your unique library. So you come out on the other side, having won all these tiny victories, making things more sane, and I imagine most authors will believe their library literally "saves the day", when in reality, it just makes the language suck less.