Svelte is where the fun is ๐
We have a guy doing svelte on my team and it looks great, I'm just hoping it's not going to be a blocker down the road when we need more people. Is it popular these days?
Yes, even Apple has been hiring Svelte developers for 4 or so years
My current open source project is a programming language engine, which I implemented in Kotlin and compile to the JVM, Native as well as JS. That means I can run the JS version in a browser, but I don't have to deal (much with JS itself). The actual web UI is very minimal, because developing for the web is, as you correctly asserted, a nightmare.
I am, to a degree, but only because it is my job :)
Frontend has changed / is changing much more rapidly than backend, IMO.
I'm not a huge fan of this shift towards eng-driven dev-ops. I get why it's happened, but infra has never been particularly interesting to me personally and I don't enjoy owning that aspect of the stack.
I do keep up with modern web development but that tends to be changes to things like CORS, client hints, things like that. I never used JavaScript and am never gonna start.
Development is much more simple and stable, and the user experience is far superior, when you cut out JavaScript.
When I start to feel overwhelmed, I just go check the Days since the last new JavaScript framework counter.
Usually calms me down.
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