React and D3.js
I absolutely <i>despise</i> writing any kind of GUI/graphics/layout code in React's clunky long-form declarative style, but for whatever reason it's really starting to take off. I guess it's a sign of the times: there are developers these days that have quite literally <i>grown up</i> on React. It's starting to feel like XML (used everywhere, even when it might not make much sense).<p>But to me, the code is longer, more unwieldly, more prone to error, and to top it off, it also inherits all of React's annoying idiosyncrasies. It's weird to even type this out, but Java's Swing felt more intuitive than seeing D3 on top of React.<p>For example:<p><pre><code>      <circle
        cx="150"
        cy="77"
        r="40"
      />
</code></pre>
Just the fact that this could technically be written as draw.circle(150, 77, 40) in any sane programming language should give you some pause.