JS DX always seemed really quite bad whenever I looked. A constantly shifting landscape of frameworks and packages where nothing will stand for long before being eroded away.
- language: ES / Typescript are quite established
- CSS: also quite established
- Frameworks: there is still a lot of innovation here, but also React / Vue / Angular are quite established.
on that latter part I prefer the innovation. Let's just imagine for a while what UI would look like if we only had Swing (Java) or QT (C++)
yes, Telegram looks so bad right ?
https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/main/LICENSE
So everyone can use it without the need to expose his IP.
See for instance one of the most core Blink data structures: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/blink/+/refs/head...
That is the exact same license than Qt, you do not need to expose your IP when using it (Tesla used LGPL Qt for their car dashboards and you don't see that IP floating around on the internet)
As for the stability of the front-end ecosystem, it doesn't exist. The many articles that were posted on HN over the years complaining about the endless quagmire of front-end frameworks, libraries and technologies explain this better than I could.
I can easily imagine that, because that's more or less what we had before Electron. And it was much better, because apps (mostly) looked consistent across the OS, rather than each and every one coming up with its own custom UI theme.