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You said "My personal view is that the 'what' in frontend development generally isn't super interesting and most web frontends are very similar." I think if you take a serious look at Svelte you will see that it is much simpler than the current popular web frameworks.

> A cynical reading is that they are only given away because the competition can derive no value from them... In fact, forcing your competitors to retrain every 6 months when you release another major version that breaks all existing projects will only slow them down and fill your coffers!

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/

As a sort of side note, amusingly, Microsoft is rarely included in the FANG-style acronyms. There's a reason for that, Microsoft is the granddaddy of FANGs, from a strategy perspective :-)

> amusingly, Microsoft is rarely included in the FANG-style acronyms. There's a reason for that, Microsoft is the granddaddy of FANGs, from a strategy perspective

I propose a new law: "Every technical discussion in Hacker News is exhausted when stock market or cryptocurrencies are mentioned".

Or perhaps that the granddaddy of FANG-style acronyms, NOISE, was coined specifically to refer to Microsoft competitors; Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and Everyone else.

> if you do not focus on new tooling, you will just do the same thing over and over which is unsatisfying.

I have no idea how you go from "knowing what you're doing" to "unsatisfying"

> some of the greatest minds of our generation are being put into rooms to work on animations for buttons on virtual DVD cases and Photo Books.

why thank you sir!