Postcss is not necessary for custom properties. IE isn’t a thing anymore, and using css custom properties directly without a transpilation step is fine. The same thing applies to the for … of issue. Babel is not necessary anymore, all browsers support ES8. JSX is the only thing babel still does that offers real value, but that can be replaced by the runtime alternative developit/htm. We can just stop using babel and sidestep this whole issue.
I see a lot of energy going into making faster build tools, and I feel this energy is misdirected. We need to dramatically strip down the build tools as most of them have become largely redundant since the death of IE.
Postcss is not necessary for custom properties. IE isn’t a thing anymore, and using css custom properties directly without a transpilation step is fine. The same thing applies to the for … of issue. Babel is not necessary anymore, all browsers support ES8. JSX is the only thing babel still does that offers real value, but that can be replaced by the runtime alternative developit/htm. We can just stop using babel and sidestep this whole issue.
I see a lot of energy going into making faster build tools, and I feel this energy is misdirected. We need to dramatically strip down the build tools as most of them have become largely redundant since the death of IE.