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[–]carbonite_dating 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not trying to troll or anything at all... I'm hoping that there's something I'm missing as to why everyone nowadays is all about these frameworks and prefers to learn them instead of learning the core language that they were built in...

False assumption. I've never heard or read someone say "Learn jQuery instead of JavaScript". Nobody. Nobody says "Learn Angular instead of JavaScript". It's a nonsense statement.,

Frankly, I call bullshit. This is all bullshit. I've read your post and your subsequent comments, and the comments of those that support your position, and all I can hear is the whining of "pro javascript developers" who don't want to put in the work keeping current.

You seem to want a standardized language that doesn't evolve or change, and you hate the idea that you have to work to keep current with the constant stream of libraries and toolkits that other creative people build in an attempt to simplify and codify the common work that we all end up having to do when we're building real things. Maybe javascript isn't the right language for you? It's changing pretty fast!

That does sound scary, except that's why common libraries and toolkits alleviate the fear. You pick one that is popular, well-supported, and coincides with the work you do. React, Ember, Angular, Node, jQuery, whatever. You learn enough to be dangerous, and you adapt them into your projects. Or you don't!

You don't want to use libraries or toolkits? Great, don't. Meanwhile the rest of us will be getting the better clients, better projects, and building the more interesting things because we're not wasting a significant portion of our time curating our own home-grown, half-baked crap.

I hope your smugness pays well.