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Re:How the Fuck Did We Get Here? by janci on Friday April 07, 2023 @05:36PM (#35487304)
Never attribute to malice...

I actually always tought of web frontend to be the easiest to start with. But that only applies to starting a very simple project from scratch without external dependencies. Afterwards the complexity grows very, very steeply.

Starting new fully featured web project takes me whole day. And if I want to use recent version of the stack, everytime I have to forget everything I knew and start again, because everything changed totally since I did it last time.

Re:How the Fuck Did We Get Here? by jollyllama on Friday April 07, 2023 @05:38PM (#35487322)
Very accurate. At first, it's all fun and games and you're adding this and that npm dependency. The crying comes later.
Re:How the Fuck Did We Get Here? by smitty1e on Friday April 07, 2023 @07:54PM (#35488739)
Why not just vendor the stuff, if it's a tiny wee thing that isn't worth an edge in the dependency graph?