There are obviously UX and other issues that I struggle to excel at, but from a simple, consumer-facing perspective, I see UI getting more and more manageable.
The reason you find it getting easier is not to be found in any of these tools, but in your repeated effort to "put something up" and getting better at it.
You are learning how to design by doing design.
Absolutely. It's a wonderful time to learn.
My design sense remains abysmal. Being able to use something like Bootstrap to get a sensible look and feel is a big boon.
I struggle hard with the UX, but I'm amazed that with modern tools I can create a rudimentary, but clean design in Sketch, code it, and manage the infrastructure behind it.
Even 10 years ago, these were 3 to 5 completely distinct skillsets (designer, frontend, backend, infrastructure, DBA).
There are obviously limitations to it, but for my use cases it's great.
Any major reasons to use one or the other?
- Nobody likes bootstrap, but everybody knows bootstrap (good for an open-source lib) - Better browser compatibility - Better accessibility - Plenty of UI widgets built on top of bootstrap (we don't use them, but people using the lib could) - About as big as each other
If you dig down, it's apparently because the DSL Sass is used to generate CSS. But there are Sass compilers in C and Python and probably in Prolog at this juncture.