Does anyone else feel that web technologies are the least worthy of mastery?
I mean, a lot of effort has gone into making poorly formed HTML work, and JavaScript has some really odd quirks that will never be fixed because of backwards compatibility, and every computer runs a slightly different browser. True mastery of such a system sounds like a nightmare. Truly understanding different browsers, and CSS, and raw DOM APIs, none of this feels worthy my time. I've learned Haskell even though I'll never use it because there's useful universal ideas in Haskell I can use elsewhere. The web stack is a pile of confusion; there's no great insight that follows learning how JavaScript's if-statements work, just more confusion.
If there was ever a place where I would just blindly use whatever slop a LLM produces, it would be the web.
I mean, a lot of effort has gone into making poorly formed HTML work, and JavaScript has some really odd quirks that will never be fixed because of backwards compatibility, and every computer runs a slightly different browser. True mastery of such a system sounds like a nightmare. Truly understanding different browsers, and CSS, and raw DOM APIs, none of this feels worthy my time. I've learned Haskell even though I'll never use it because there's useful universal ideas in Haskell I can use elsewhere. The web stack is a pile of confusion; there's no great insight that follows learning how JavaScript's if-statements work, just more confusion.
If there was ever a place where I would just blindly use whatever slop a LLM produces, it would be the web.