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Zach Leatherman :11ty:

JSX: yes
TypeScript: sure
CommonJS & ESM: no problem
Decorators: yeehaw
Web Components: how dare you, this is too much tooling overhead and complexity

27 September at 16:03 | Open on fediverse.zachleat.com
5 comments
Tegan

@zachleat every one of those besides web components (and i guess esm) can go out of fashion and never be thought about again without breaking the web.

Web components are calcified how they are forever since they are built in to the platform you can only do additive changes which is why complexity is an issue with them 🤷‍♀️

27 September at 16:12 | Open on social.vivaldi.net
Zach Leatherman :11ty:

@rawrmonstar The web platform is calcified in the same way! One person’s calcification is another person’s stability 😅

27 September at 16:15 | Open on fediverse.zachleat.com
Tegan

@zachleat i know, that’s the point. I’m guess you are responding to Ryan’s post?

I don’t think it’s an absurd criticism to think that web components calcified something that most developers did not even want and now a ton of work is being made to add more things, once added are also calcified, to just get them to the point that they meet expectations of what a component even is.

All of these additions nudge web developers towards one direction but it’s not even clear that that direction is where we want to end up and it feels like it’s piling on apis simply to steam roll ahead something that is still not even clear are any better than user land solutions.

@zachleat i know, that’s the point. I’m guess you are responding to Ryan’s post?

I don’t think it’s an absurd criticism to think that web components calcified something that most developers did not even want and now a ton of work is being made to add more things, once added are also calcified, to just get them to the point that they meet expectations of what a component even is.

27 September at 16:35 | Open on social.vivaldi.net
Miguel

@zachleat think of their poor compilers 😏

27 September at 16:15 | Open on indieweb.social
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