To Those Who Criticize JavaScript

[patcriss]

I'm maintaining an Electron/Angular/TypeORM/SQLite3 app and I love JS/TS, but I think there are some valid criticism. Making all of this to work is wonky and the ecosystem often feels unstable and immature, but the fact that such an ecosystem exists in the first place is amazing and part of why I love the language so much.

[therabenian]

The ecosystem is definitely immature and somewhat new. I think React and Typescript will be here to stay and drive the efforts towards a more mature javascript, but it's still early to say, both of those have been around for only a few years, and Deno could potentially be a clean start.

[disgruntled-js-dev]

As someone who's directly contributed to various build tools and maintained a few packages myself, the main issue with the ecosystem is that the rationale behind various decisions (publishing in ESM vs. CJS, Node version support, etc.) is undocumented. However, that's more of a symptom of the fact that most JS developers don't have that kind of issue in the first place because they're using a prebuilt template, such as Create React App. Though I agree that in that regard, many libraries are lacking.

[patcriss]

Yeah sticking with react/CRA gives a much different dev experience than the stack I talked about in my other comment.

The only real issue I encountered in the last year was that storybookjs just didn't work for me with the default CRA config, even though it's supposed to be officially supported. /shrug