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Devasta04/23/20251 replyview on HN

HTML -> JSX

CSS -> Tailwind

JS -> Typescript

It must be maddening working as a browser dev knowing that the very first thing most devs worth their corn do is immediately go to abstracts so they are able ignore your work as much as they can.


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whstl04/23/2025

I feel however that trendy tech is moving closer to the browser.

Previously we had things like CoffeeScript, HAML, Pug, SASS/SCSS.

Tailwind is just plain CSS classes and the code generation step is just an optimisation.

For TS there is a proposal for adding type annotations to Javascript. Dunno how far it is, though.

JSX is the odd one out but still closer to HTML than things like HAML, which also had embedded logic but looked nothing like HTML.