Maybe just me but I actually think building web apps is already fun. I’ve got a hot reloading instant dev environment, I can publish to users in an instant… it’s great!

Looking at the Marko examples I feel the same way I do whenever similar stuff gets showcased: it’s trying to focus too hard on brevity and/or cutesiness and doesn’t seem like it would scale well to a full, complex web app. But maybe it’s not supposed to and maybe that’s fine.

React and Svelte and the rest can read clunkily at times but they have a clear separation of concerns and I’m glad for that.