alt Hacker NewsThe obsession with DX tooling is exactly why JS is such an awful developer experience. They always chase something slightly better and constantly change things.
Maybe the answer was never in JS eating the entire frontend, and changing the tooling won’t make it better, as it’s always skirting what’s actually good for the web.
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Hmm, JS is "different" because it has completely unique challenges that no other programming language has to deal with: https://bower.sh/my-love-letter-to-front-end-web-development
There’s just no way for the abominations that are HTML, JS, and CSS to be used in an accessible and maintainable way. It’s absurd that we haven’t moved on to better technologies in the browser or at least enabled alternatives (I weep for Silverlight).
> The obsession with DX tooling is exactly why JS is such an awful developer experience.
I used to agree but these days with Vite things are a lot smoother. To the point that I wouldn't want to work on UI without fine-grained hot reloads.
Even with auto reload in PHP, .NET, etc you will be wasting so much time. Especially if you're working on something that requires interaction with the page that you will be repeating over and over again.