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This seems like it came from a newbie/inexperienced dev.

> substantially widen the pool of people who can work on web software codebases

This isn't a problem. There's already more people who can work on web software than there ever was.

> A second goal of HTML First is to make it more enjoyable and seamless to build web software

Subjective. If people enjoy it like this that is fine but these shouldn't be touted as principles everyone should follow.



Not newbie or inexperienced, have built & managed multiple large teams & been thinking about this for a long time

https://x.com/tonyennis/status/1139071584935637000?s=20


There's a few reasons for the ratio mentioned in your tweet. Rapid industry growth in the past decade and the fact that junior devs are cheaper to have on a team. It's got nothing to do with writing a website in HTML vs React.




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