Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks?
Yes. I feel like we&#x27;re in the dark ages right now.<p>JavaScript - Dynamically typed, does not scale what so ever. Code written in it becomes &#x27;read only&#x27; very quickly. Impossible to refactor.<p>CSS - Also becomes impossible to manage. Who knows if the class you wrote is or isn&#x27;t being used in HTML or JavaScript somewhere. Same problem, read-only, it only gets bigger and more unmanageable.<p>HTML - At the heart of it, the foundation is the layout engine and positioning, and it sucks. Flexbox was supposed to bring sanity, but I feel like we&#x27;re still waiting on it.<p>Put these three stooges together and you get where we are today.  Rewriting the same damn app every year in another framework in what can only be described as some sort of high paying purgatory.