Agreed! Astro is fantastic, but the biggest barrier I had in learning it was getting my head around range of terms that developers who entered the workplace after 2010 have invented to describe "how the web works".
I really appreciate that innovation can sometimes reinvent things that exist out of pure ignorance and sometimes hubris. I’ve seen people turn mountains out of molehills that take on a lore of their own and then along comes someone new who doesn’t know or is a little too sure of themselves and suddenly the problem is solved with something seemingly obvious.
I’m not sure javascript islands is that but I appreciate a new approach to an old pattern.
We're a growing startup, based out of a real office with air conditioning, carpets and everything, with paying customers and no VC intervention. And we're based out of Newcastle.
Just one data point, granted, but we're not alone.
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