Re:Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks?
by erlich on Monday September 12, 2016 @08:05AM
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It sounds like you are unfamiliar with what modern JS looks like.
> JavaScript - Dynamically typed, does not scale what so ever.
Flow has resolved this. It has good investment from Facebook, plenty of adoption, a flexible type system, and you can sprinkle it into existing code as you like.
> HTML - At the heart of it, the foundation is the layout engine and positioning, and it sucks. Flexbox was supposed to bring sanity, but I feel like we're still waiting on it.
Bootstrap or any million css libraries. Just have to wait for Flexbox and we are good.
> JavaScript - Dynamically typed, does not scale what so ever.
Flow has resolved this. It has good investment from Facebook, plenty of adoption, a flexible type system, and you can sprinkle it into existing code as you like.
Also try wallaby.js for instant test running.
> CSS - Also becomes impossible to manage.
See webpack's local css scope. https://github.com/webpack/css-loader.
> HTML - At the heart of it, the foundation is the layout engine and positioning, and it sucks. Flexbox was supposed to bring sanity, but I feel like we're still waiting on it.
Bootstrap or any million css libraries. Just have to wait for Flexbox and we are good.