Making the theory rubber hit the reality road here is, I fear, more complicated than just developer convenience. Shipping is weighed as
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By business folk considerably more easily than the less tangible "it works for more people" "it's faster" or "it's more accessible"..
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Given a complicated design, if less skilled folks can ship something fast, their convenience is then rewarded in a feedback loop.. Tough.
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happy to explain this more if it is unclear, but it's something I see every day and it's not something I can "fix" from where I sit.
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I view most of today's JavaScript-industrial-complex about the same way I view credit card offers, and so should everyone else.
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...when used judiciously, the convenience more than pays for itself. When used the _intended_ way, these products are unsafe at any speed.
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...and w/o prescriptive guidance as part of the product or guard rails to keep users from predictable performance default, not all on users
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Most of today's JS products and starter kits are _defective_ by default. It's hard to say it any more clearly than that.
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They lure you into a world of "anything's possible!" when in fact it's not and never was. Hard choices are inescapable.
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And it's not a moral failing on the part of the developers who chose convenience when sold a lie.
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The Polymers called me "the Gordon Ramsay of web development", but I'd rather be "the Suze Orman of front-end": CAN YOU AFFORD IT? REALLY?
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