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There is some irony in talking about simple components and ease of assembly with standard tools then mentioning JS and it's utter abomination of an ecosystem where you need a bunch of tools to put together the simplest of sites (if you insist doing it in modern JS way)

JS IKEA would ship you 6 trucks of dependencies before you could hang a shelf



I don't think it's fair to say they "mentioned" JS, because that implies they held it in high regard re: the point the article is making.

They just used it in a code example. Since that is likely the most common language among their audience, it makes sense.


Just because you're not able to separate the good from the bad, doesn't mean it's all bad in JS land.


If the ecosystem is bad (hypothetically speaking, I'm not a JS developer), what good is having a few good things?


Please don’t speculate/fearmonger if you’re not even invested in the conversation and ecosystem.




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