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The JS ecosystem has died and I don't think very many people have realized this yet
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@joepie91 and not just because it makes you feel dead on the inside, I assume?
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@clarfonthey Nope, I wish it were just that. Essentially all new development is in shiny do-it-all frameworks with a lifespan measured in dog years at best, and usually with an exploitative and unsustainable startup attached.
Almost everything that isn't "tools for building a bog standard startup webapp" has gone unmaintained, and pretty much no new such things are being built. There's nothing for newer protocols, native modules no longer work on newer Node versions and don't get updated anymore, practically nobody does cool weird experiments (like how WebTorrent started) anymore, and the entire community around it has basically been captured by LLM garbage specifically and startup culture more generally.
That's not an ecosystem anymore, that's a shopping mall.
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@joepie91 not surprising at all tbh
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@clarfonthey Yeah, it was a long time coming, I've even been yelling about it for a while already. Just sad to see that it ended up happening 'to completion'.
It's made me think a lot about the role that programming languages and their communities (should) have.
