Guess what, in the mean time as some MPA frameworks have been made, the whole web has been moving towards webassembly. Say goodbye to MPA HTML, say hello to Rust with custom UI based on WebGPU transpiled to webassembly.
If this is the future, then no wonder everyone is running back to just shipping HTML over the wire. All this has gotten too complicated.
All these frameworks, doing too much magic under the hood, were supposed to make things easier, in some form or fashion, but I feel like each one always come with their own problems. Are things actually easier when developing with them?
While I understand nothing is perfect, it doesn't help but add so much complexity into many applications for no reason. If over half of all websites when back to plain HTML/CSS/JS, I do not think the world would suddenly stop.
I feel like a majority of people building web applications are using a development methodology I read on here years ago that was jokingly called, "Resume-Driven Development." I've still not really ever heard a convincing argument for SPAs for websites (web applications could be a different debate, but it also could be a false dichotomy).
However, I find myself getting urges to learn one of these SPA frameworks, not because I think it will benefit much of what I do, but because that is obligatory in staying competitive in my market.
I find Rust more pleasant to use than C#. If you had said F#, I woud be like "maybe" but not C#.
The DOM has it's own lifetime decisions, but lifetimes are the most central concern for Rust. I don't think both can be conciliated without a major rewrite of one of those parts.
These ideas must come from people who have no intention to learn the languages required to build frontends, but want to stick to their systems language of choice. Not realising of course, that the problem space remains pixels and users and all the irritations that come with it.
I think that this is the wrong way to think about it, the languages and tools for systems programming suck. I would recommend you check out Rust, it make systems programming really pleasant. Like I have been programming C++ for 25 years and somehow I'm a lot more comfortable with writing Rust even though I have seriously written Rust for only like 1.5 years.
It is. I can finally have value types which let me access properties without incurring the overhead of a JIT.
> and it generally has pretty bad bundle size
For now. So do websites btw.