I think in time, we will look back at the mess of &quot;modern js&quot; development, including the true shit-show of npm, in the same way we look back at the horrors of J2EE, XML hell, bean hell, FactoryOfFactoryOfFactoryofEclipsePleaseAutoCompleteThisBeforeRSIsetsIn, and the rest.<p>The only interesting bit is whether it will be webassembly or something else that actually drags us into a paradigm shift for the web.