I have also been doing software for a bit over 2^5 years, and the glass IS half empty. But, it's also half full. Newer HTML/CSS standards appear to be defined

I have also been doing software for a bit over 2^5 years, and the glass IS half empty. But, it's also half full. Newer HTML/CSS standards appear to be defined in a somewhat compartmentalized fashion. I'm doing an app rewrite in Angular, and its actually working pretty well so far (1). It's much snappier than java/struts, and we are able to convert the legacy code into REST services for future product integration work. The author mentioned horrible Chrome documentation. Mozilla / Firefox has EXCELLENT javascript documentation, including listing MS IE compatibility to save you the trip to the MSDN swamp. Much of this is overkill for "pages", but not for "apps". (1) "pretty well", with exception of IE, of course -- even 11 won't gzip or cache static files. At least IE 8 dies in Jan 2016, though.