> 36 years at least. I'm not talking about WWW. HTML and JS were never meant to be the end-all of human computer interaction, but yet here we are.
I have to be honest I don't know what you mean here.
The web and its frontend (and tooling) is what this thread is about. We've thrown out a lot in the mean time. Java applets, Flash/Shockwave, ActiveX, dynamic HTML ... the web has grown a lot and will continue to do so.
But the world of JS as a front-end application language is still fairly new. Until the late 2000s it was just a bolt-on for doing little things around static HTML.
That is my complaint. And yes, I don't know what I'm looking for. All I can say is that the stack that I used 35 years ago was just as good as what I use today. An even more senior developer than myself says it this way. Humans achieve a certain level of complexity and sophistication in any given domain and have an hard time increasing it. I think we've arrived at that point with UX frameworks, and we did decades ago.
I have to be honest I don't know what you mean here.
The web and its frontend (and tooling) is what this thread is about. We've thrown out a lot in the mean time. Java applets, Flash/Shockwave, ActiveX, dynamic HTML ... the web has grown a lot and will continue to do so.
But the world of JS as a front-end application language is still fairly new. Until the late 2000s it was just a bolt-on for doing little things around static HTML.