> This leads to a tension between devs wanting to abstract and everything constantly breaking the abstraction rules.
This exists everywhere. But the churn only exists in the NPM section of the JavaScript world. QT, SDL, GTK, Cocoa have very stable paradigms to do UI. Even the DOM api is stable. But in the NPM world, nobody wants to actually stick to an API, instead they insists on supporting edge cases that should actually be an extension or another library.
Like a challenge to write better code that is still bad enough to throw away as soon as possible, I think there's something to scripting that feels enticingly ephemeral.
This exists everywhere. But the churn only exists in the NPM section of the JavaScript world. QT, SDL, GTK, Cocoa have very stable paradigms to do UI. Even the DOM api is stable. But in the NPM world, nobody wants to actually stick to an API, instead they insists on supporting edge cases that should actually be an extension or another library.