The only thing that sucks about npm are when package dependencies are not updated and dependency hell becomes very real, but that’s not really the fault of the package manager.

Yeah, fuck virtual environments and different Python versions.

I think it works great. At least I’m don’t have to deal with Python

It’s an idiot thing is what it is

This is a bit of a stretch I think…

Web development is complicated because it’s indredibly poorly “designed” from the beginning, and doing a full redo is impossible.

It is 100x easier today than it was in 2006 when I started.

Kidding aside, I think the popular frameworks these days are incredibly well made. Frontend web has always been hell, and if your job is producing functional web GUIs, you can’t do it on a large scale without them.

I’m doing a small hobby project (a ladder/ranking system for playing beer sports with my community), and I tried out Tailwind.

I gave up and loaded Bootstrap instead, but I will probably end up just writing all the CSS myself.

Seems so silly to have 15 CSS classes on a single DOM element…

If you spend a lot of time on a single framework, you will transcend and become a sort of frontend diety, growing multiple extra limbs allowing you to type in CSS classes faster than any mere mortal

I shudder at the thought of the ancient 1000+ lines Perl scripts… The seal must not be broken