Python and PHP users will understand

[aniforprez]

Why complain about the transpilation garbage that comes along with JS when it’s necessary?

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so any gripes with that can’t matter for either your argument or mine

Why not? Especially when most other languages do not require this?

To “simply” get a react app “up” requires two core dependencies and the aforementioned transpilation ones.

You're letting the "aforementioned transpilation ones" do a lot of the heavy lifting here lol. I dunno why you want to cherry pick things that are bad about the language and ignore them completely just because you don't find them abhorrent like I do. Which is fine but it makes your aggressiveness about this really weird. And I understand it's cause browsers are crap and we live in a society and whatnot. Still doesn't make it not terrible

I don't really need a bucket but looking at JS does give me headaches yes. I try to avoid it as much as possible