Comment by spartanatreyu
5 hours ago
It didn't solve frontend, it sold developers one lie (i.e. ui = f(state) ) and managers another (developers are interchangeable gears).
Problems are only truly solved by the folks who dedicate themselves to understanding the problem, that is: the folks working on web standards and the other folks implementing them.
> Problems are only truly solved by the folks who dedicate themselves to understanding the problem, that is: the folks working on web standards and the other folks implementing them.
It kills me to think of how amazing Web Components could be if those folks had started standardising them _now_ instead of in "competition" with userland component libraries of the time (while punting on many of the essential challenges of developing UI in the DOM those libraries were still evolving solutions for), and introduced more problems entirely of their own making.
Too bad the problems getting solved aren't the problems that need solving. Maybe this is one of the reasons software development is such a joke of a profession.