The State of JavaScript – Survey results
It&#x27;s really unfortunate that so many people aren&#x27;t interested in learning Ember. I just started an internal IT tool in Rails and Ember and I&#x27;m <i>really</i> enjoying the simplicity of it. I want something that is easy to understand, easy to setup, and won&#x27;t change for a while. I became more interested in Ember when I read something online about how they are focusing on stability in the long term instead of a bunch of features. There are also a couple of tools for &quot;just get it hooked up to rails, stupid&quot; that helped me move quickly. As a simple, simple guy - I really prize the &quot;hey stupid I set it up for you&quot; command line tools that give me a starting point. Then I can figure things out as I go along by making small, simple, controlled changes.<p>This is in strong contrast to something like Elm. I have played around with Elm a bit but it&#x27;s hard to wrap my head around some of the concepts and setting it up with the back-end frameworks that I&#x27;m familiar with has been meh. It&#x27;s also changing rapidly so trying to figure out the concepts by looking at real world examples doesn&#x27;t help because of a changing language specification. Going from changing the state of a counter to building out a larger application has been somewhat difficult for me and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start a small project with it. I&#x27;m chipping away at that with an Elixir&#x2F;Elm project, however. But the overall point is that progress is slow because it&#x27;s such a different way of doing things and I get this gut feeling that I&#x27;m drifting away from KISS principles.<p>I&#x27;m not a front end developer at all. I&#x27;m a systems engineer who dabbles in web application development because it&#x27;s fun and allows me to build some nice internal tooling for other teams. However, because I don&#x27;t have that deep web experience I tend to gravitate towards the &quot;old but still good&quot; concepts and frameworks. I&#x27;m much more likely to reach for jQuery and server side rendered templates than I am for React or whatever amalgamation of libraries that require an overcomplicated build tool.