Everything Easy is Hard Again (2018)
I'm going to get downvoted into the the ground for this, but I think it has to be said:<p>Front-end infrastructure and tools design unfortunately does not attract the cream of the CS graduate crop (and even less so Front-End design work).<p>For some reason, cream of the crop CS graduates usually veer towards systems, compiler, DB, back-end infra, language design, back-end, ML, etc ...<p>But not front-end.<p>The net result: the front-end ecosystem looks like the first BASIC program written by a 10 year-old who just got his first computer: it's a mess, it's unprincipled, it's grown organically, it's driven by fashion and immediate business needs, it's an unmaintainable tarpit, and it's increasingly a nightmare to build with.<p>I'm just ranting, I don't know what the solution is, but I gotta say: the WEB in 2021 is in a very sorry state.<p>[EDIT]: and if I try to think of a root cause for this state of affairs, I believe a lot of the blame can be attributed to Javascript, a language which sort of gave the "slapped together quickly because we need something now, damned be the warts" tone for the entire ecosystem.