Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks?
&gt; Am I missing something?<p>Probably. Good folks to learn from.<p>&gt; Is it me resisting change?<p>Only you can tell, but client side web development is fine, thanks :)<p>&gt; Is web programming really that bad?<p>No, it&#x27;s doing fine, thanks for asking.<p>&gt; Is it really just that I need a new mental paradigm?<p>If you really want to take your time working with client side projects, then you need to relax a bit and just learn a bit more and play a bit more with these techs. Some you&#x27;ll hate, some you&#x27;ll love. That&#x27;s it.<p>I don&#x27;t really understand why is this hate against web development goes on HN. I&#x27;m building web apps for lots of years now and the major obstacles were never really the technology, but money or people.<p>Building UI-s in the browser with CSS is not a rocket science; a JS app is easily scalable to 100k lines of code; backend wise you need some good team and a sane PM who don&#x27;t want to immediately scale your app to Death Star level. 
Projects does get fucked from time to time, but if you picked your stack well, you&#x27;ll be fine. I admit it takes experience to identify the crap tools, but what profession doesn&#x27;t?