Comment by wavemode

20 hours ago

I would argue that the proliferation of frontend frameworks is evidence is that we -don't- know what the optimal abstraction is for building frontend applications. We're all still trying to figure that out.

Just look at what happened with Web Components. It didn't take over or become the foundation of everyone's software. It just became yet another competitor [0].

I wish the standards committees would focus their efforts on improving JavaScript the language. That has a much greater and more lasting return on investment.

[0]: https://xkcd.com/927/

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branko_d  16 hours ago

I would love to see Web platform become more similar to JVM or .NET CLR - just a bytecode JIT with access to rich layout/rendering engine. Then build whatever you want on top of it.

  • nine_k  16 hours ago

    DOM + CSS is a hugely rich layout / rendering engine. The problem is that it's heavyweight.