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Comment by trueno

7 hours ago

my brain for whatever reason won't accept react it's just instant ejection. i was there in the before times all the way up till jquery became uncool and i just tuned out of front end entirely once react and all the stuff driven by facebook became so ubiquitous, my soul just does not want to dabble in any of it. i think im mostly just appalled at what feels like over complexity that might've made sense over a decade ago but perhaps im waiting for a more satisfying paradigm to come along. i dunno. i had some sparks of joy tinkering with golang to build ssr stuff, i dont keep up with wasm at all but i hope its cruising along.

i wonder if what im after is like some kinda dead simple easy to use declarative front end api that can be built from a backend, something like streamlit or nicegui that has great ergonomics and is easy to maintain but scales better and has better state mgmt than streamlit & puts all the power of a general purpose programming language right there with it. i love compiled things i hate setting up environments with runtimes and stuff.

I get the feeling. From someone outside looking in (haven’t done web work since the heyday of Rails), React and the associated modern stack looks a whole lot like a Homermobile built on the frame and engine of a go-kart, all held together with duct tape and twine sourced from TEMU. The idea that this is the web’s “final form” is difficult to stomach.