alt Hacker NewsHTMX is interesting.
I have most of my apps in it without much trouble.
One of my recent ones had a very complicated form and state management.
AI really struggled with HTMX in that use case.
Like the form might work but the page would take 30s to load. Or some state would randomly drop or a toggle wouldn't work after changing a dependency.
If I rewrote that in react it would have one shot it without a doubt. Some things are just better models for different problems.
For the record I eventually got enough tests in place to keep the agent honest and the HTMX version is now a lot faster anything I could have got out of react but yeah, it was an adventure.
I judge languages by how they look. JavaScript is a wall of const/async/await these days, which is ugly. Functionality aside (the APIs have gotten pretty decent), the language has gotten uglier. It used to be nice and nuanced even with boilerplate. Closures and prototype inheritance is neat. Walls of const are not. Does every enclosed function need a million consts for every expression?
Also, it’s a language where everything happens somewhere else. Not here and now, somewhere else on some other event. That sucks for the small stuff.