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Never attribute to malice...

I actually always tought of web frontend to be the easiest to start with. But that only applies to starting a very simple project from scratch without external dependencies. Afterwards the complexity grows very, very steeply.

Starting new fully featured web project takes me whole day. And if I want to use recent version of the stack, everytime I have to forget everything I knew and start again, because everything changed totally since I did it last time.



Very accurate. At first, it's all fun and games and you're adding this and that npm dependency. The crying comes later.


Why not just vendor the stuff, if it's a tiny wee thing that isn't worth an edge in the dependency graph?




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