Re:Ask HN: What happened to vanilla HTML/CSS/JS development?
by arbitrage on Friday September 09, 2022 @03:49PM
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so, yes, you are not wrong. the issue here is the differential of 'managing complexity' with regards to time.
as the functionality of the app progresses beyond a certain complexity (admittedly, this is nebulously defined), increasing changes to complexity require more time to effect.
beyond a certain point of functionality, the need for a a framework to manage these things becomes emergent. at that point, a single coder can resume making more complex changes with the aide of the framework, than she could do without it.
you're not wrong, you just are not considering a big enough scope over which to evaluate what the manual manipulation of software primitives is worth.
in the end, frameworks aide results beyond the ability of a single coder to implement on their own.
as the functionality of the app progresses beyond a certain complexity (admittedly, this is nebulously defined), increasing changes to complexity require more time to effect.
beyond a certain point of functionality, the need for a a framework to manage these things becomes emergent. at that point, a single coder can resume making more complex changes with the aide of the framework, than she could do without it.
you're not wrong, you just are not considering a big enough scope over which to evaluate what the manual manipulation of software primitives is worth.
in the end, frameworks aide results beyond the ability of a single coder to implement on their own.