Ask HN: Why did Frontend development explode in complexity?

Re:Ask HN: Why did Frontend development explode in complexity? by wlesieutre on Monday January 02, 2023 @12:49PM (#34221038)

There’s another discussion going on about how the older layers of Windows you dig into, the more useful the UI gets, perhaps that’s the narrative they’re thinking of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34216619

I’m inclined to agree, older UI toolkits could make plenty productive UIs. But they aren’t good at following yearly evolving design fads, and webpages tend to lean heavily toward marketing and appearances over being more utilitarian.

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Re:Ask HN: Why did Frontend development explode in complexity? by taeric on Monday January 02, 2023 @01:05PM (#34221289)

Older toolkits were great at single team creations. This, interestingly, did mean the person making it knew exactly how to use test it.

I question whether the toolkits were actually better, or we just had fewer things to use test? Certainly fewer form factors. Granted, the decision to try and have a single code base for many different resolutions and such is, of course, questionable.

Edit: directly to the point, is it the old toolkits that made better tools? Are those same toolkits used today? Pointing at older tools does not show that the toolkits were better.

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