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HTML/CSS/JS has been stretched so far beyond what it was originally designed for.

JavaScript’s tooling will only get harder to work with as we push it to handle more.

Eventually we’ll need to find something better than HTML/CSS/JS for developing in the browser.

Yea, the original intent of js was to write small snippets of code to stitch HTML together.

The neat "software distribution system" - the web browser became very popular. The wide adoption of the browser has forced js into the realm of the general purpose languages because it was the language of that VM-browser.

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