The worst is js development.
You need thousands of tools and there always exists 3 alternatives.
Js/ts as a language is the smallest problem.
You need thousands of tools and there always exists 3 alternatives.
Js/ts as a language is the smallest problem.
I will confidently back you up. I am a well-rounded programmer, and have used many languages and domains. Kotlin (in the Android SDK at least) is the most complicated, messiest, least-pleasant I've found. JS/Node is second place.
I'm reasonably confident it's not the Kotlin language itself I dislike, so much as the tooling associated with it, and the expected project structure.
Edit: But I absolutely agree that $subj platform should focus on that, not even on the language. A language can be learned in one evening on a “fiddle” site, no platform required.
Personally, when I become interested in another language, all I want is a page of common snippets or a cheatsheet to get the feel of syntax, and then how to make and deploy a non-toy project with all the usual libs and tools attached.
For meta, I’d say our issue here is not the lack of platforms or manuals, but that we simply don’t have a decent search engine, because we don’t have a decent internet economy model. Our models and tools are indecent and there’s no help.
Why should I have to rely on Google/stack overflow/chatgpt to set up my environment?
I was used to use vue, there was webpack now it's vite or nextjs, some tools are build on top of others like nextjs on webpack and vite on esbuild.
If you stop working 2 years in js your tools will completely change.
E.g. java has maven and more and more use graddle, but it's way slower change.