alt Hacker News> Now with AI doing this work is a minute ... Frameworks and dependencies made and replaced by custom "ground-up" creations is now a plausible reality.
"You only have to want it and believe in it, then it will succeed."
- Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
"The airship [is] the future of commercial air transport in general."
- Dr. Hugo Eckener
"The age of the airship is no longer a dream of the future; it is a reality of the present. Giant dirigibles will soon cross every ocean, making obsolete the slow surface ships of today."
- Popular Mechanics, December 1929
There were hundreds of such misplaced tech hopes, and hundreds that did become true - all those "visionary" quotes of newspapers talking about video calling and remote libraries. Would have anyone advocated a Rust rewrite of Bun before? The community would have frowned upon the idea, saying the effor would never be worth it. And now here we are.
I'm not saying use custom html elements because we can. But if somehow a html button is a valid technical problem, it can be reasonably done well for the scope of that app.