The Deep Roots of JavaScript Fatigue
I have learned so much from comments on Hacker News. Every time one of these articles gets posted I hope that I will get to see some thoughtful commentary on why the ecosystem looks like this: is it the enormous influx of new talent? Is it the consensus to finally drop IE support, and that we&#x27;re getting a decade of progress in two years? What business demands are driving this technology? Is this a race to make the browser experience on-par with native? How do all these things interact, and what about all the other factors that I&#x27;m not smart enough to see, but usually someone on HN points out for me?<p>But no, I never get to read that, just complaints about how the whole community is dumb. Really? That seems unlikely. I don&#x27;t believe this is pointless tech churn, akin to fashion. It really feels to me, at least, that there is a direction that the tooling is heading. I&#x27;m not sure what it is, but I feel like if that&#x27;s where these conversations were focused (instead of just rejecting the current state of things) we could figure it out.<p>Yeah, it&#x27;s frustrating as shit, we needed to all be pissed about it for a bit, but let&#x27;s have a productive conversation.