A standards-first web framework

I think this sounds exciting. As a backend eng (who prefers Htmx) and someone who totally struggles with css, reading your intro made me walk away feeling dumber than before. Again not expecting an ego boost or anything. Something that felt counter intuitive:

1. Lack of drawings hurt - I had no idea what zaha or rams meant. You had bold text which I thought were links but alas they were just bold text.

2. I actually appreciate math and still wasnt sure how I could use math in the new proposed framework (id kill for a constraint system that was similar to what iOS had).

3. +1 on the crazy level of complexity in today's frameworks (which is why I hate using nextjs etc) but perhaps some code samples (even if proof of concept would have helped) would have been helpful.

It is 100% true that modern frontend javascript development is hard. You take your eye off the ball for 6 months, and you lose what's going on. I can understand why casual folks find it difficult to get started.

For instance, a year back everybody was using pnpm. But now you use pnpm thru corepack.

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I can understand why people yearn for simpler days, but the reality is frontend developement is super-duper nice, even with all the warts. Anyone who is romanticizing the "good old days of jQuery" is being non-serious or has not lived through the pains of that.

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You cant write a spotify.com or a amazon.com with jQuery and have 100s of engineers collaborate and maintain.

And neither can you with nuejs.