> The same could be said about plain HTML/CSS though.
Genuine question: How much of the complexity of working with HTML/CSS is unnecessary and how much is inherent to the problem they solve? Is it as bad as with Javascript?
I would say that we, for the most part, have a very clear idea of how we could (theoretically) replace Javascript with something much better.
I don't know of alternative layout languages, so I don't know how good CSS is in comparison. And what could we replace HTML with? My general appreciation, from my ignorance, is that they are not that bad.
Genuine question: How much of the complexity of working with HTML/CSS is unnecessary and how much is inherent to the problem they solve? Is it as bad as with Javascript?
I would say that we, for the most part, have a very clear idea of how we could (theoretically) replace Javascript with something much better.
I don't know of alternative layout languages, so I don't know how good CSS is in comparison. And what could we replace HTML with? My general appreciation, from my ignorance, is that they are not that bad.