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Sigh? I think the speed improvement is awesome.


I'm quite alright with new tooling every six months when the new thing is orders of magnitude faster. If people want to compete to make my job as a frontend dev easier and faster, that is just fine.


Ideally we could learn how to make the existing tools better/faster and create software that can evolve rather than re-writing everything from scratch every six months.


There was many years before people started trying to replace Webpack.


True but webpack itself had a ton of churn and made practically no effort to maintain backwards compatibility causing a ton of work with each major update.


Hmm, I am using it since v2 and I disagree, it was not so bad. I saw a lot of people had overcomplicated configs that could be simplified a lot, I guess those had some problems upgrading... But mine never had much problems (and not just because my needs were simple...), I just removed some options when going to v4 and that's about it.


I suspect at some point we hit the limit of the language performance. I can't imagine JavaScript beating Rust when both are written well.


It is awesome to see so much innovation, but it can be exhausting to keep up.




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