I admire your exceptional work cataloguing these resources. However, just one look at that giant horde of links is, to me, a perfect demonstration of why the front-end development ecosystem is way out of control.
Its amazing to me that the autoconf/automake/libtool system for making write-once-run-everywhere *nix applications is downright simple by today's standards.
Every year the hot libraries change, the build tools change, the metalanguages, the data formats, even the damn paradigms change. Each generation requires more layers trying to fix up the underlying evil that nobody who soaks themselves in the matter will admit: the browser is a bad app platform and javascript is a bad language. Both have been pressed into serving a purpose for which neither were designed.
Its amazing to me that the autoconf/automake/libtool system for making write-once-run-everywhere *nix applications is downright simple by today's standards.
Every year the hot libraries change, the build tools change, the metalanguages, the data formats, even the damn paradigms change. Each generation requires more layers trying to fix up the underlying evil that nobody who soaks themselves in the matter will admit: the browser is a bad app platform and javascript is a bad language. Both have been pressed into serving a purpose for which neither were designed.