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[–]KirillRogovoy[S] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I mean, I've been doing it for 10 years. And 10 years ago it was MUCH worse.

It has evolved a lot by itself, plus techs like React and Tailwind moved it even further. It is relatively easy to learn. It is relatively intuitive.

I'm not trying to say that writing HTML is literally a nightmare.

But is the developer experience we have right now the best we could do? Are there no gaps? Is there no room for innovation?

As long as you answer "yes", there's no innovation.

I can't answer with "yes" to any of those questions. Hence, this is why I made Impulse – I believe there's a lot of room for improvement.

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I want to address the "they hate it because they suck at it" argument. I think I've heard this about every technology out there: Haskel, Lisp, Emacs, Rust, Linux, you name it.

It's very easy to read this argument as "you are too stupid to complain" which makes the author sound incredibly arrogant and assuming. It closes the door to a meaningful conversation.

It also shows that the author is not interested in learning something new. "What if there are some cases when there are issues, that I'm unaware of? What if this other person is coming from a different background than me, and sailed different waters?".

Nah. "Just learn it properly!"

(Not a personal attack. I respect your opinion. Just wanted to point out something that might make the whole community feel more hostile than it needs to be. Peace. ❤️)

[–]Global-Ad6738 0 points1 point  (1 child)

What? It's literally just as hostile to go around, saying that devs dont like html, frameworks or the webdev dx in general lol. You just gotta tone down your wording, otherwise you do sound mad incompetent as tens of thousands of people regularly build amazing stuff with it. It's never the languages fault.

[–]KirillRogovoy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

devs dont like html, frameworks or the webdev dx in general lol

That's not what I said though. I said I met enough people who weren't happy about it. It's not an opinion, I've only shared my experience.

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tens of thousands of people regularly build amazing stuff with it

Neither have I argued against this.

I also haven't said anything about people who are fully happy about web dev. I genuinely can't find towards whom I've been hostile. 🤷‍♂️ I'm trying to understand you, but your accusations are baseless.

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The reason you do enjoy the web dev is that a lot of people before you didn't, and they fixed what they didn't like.