It might be hard to swallow but: there can never be real progress on the frontend without having a programming language that is powerful enough to properly support the developer.
Programming languages are always laughed upon and most of the time I hear frontend developers telling me that frameworks are what's important, not the language. But I think typescript shows how impactful a better programming language can be.
Unfortunately, even typescript - despite of how great of a language it is - isn't capable yet to support even basic cases.
For instance, using the features of the language to describe a nested structure of components, each of which has different dependencies that are a subset of its parents dependencies. Such a thing cannot be expressed with typescript, so frameworks/libraries all come up with their own way of doing that and in consequence giving up on typesafety and hence making it way harder to understand things and way easier to make subtle mistakes.
I hope we will see major improvements on that front eventually. However, powerful programming languages are hard to learn and take time to master - something that is often doomed to not survive in the frontend world where things are fast-paced.
Programming languages are always laughed upon and most of the time I hear frontend developers telling me that frameworks are what's important, not the language. But I think typescript shows how impactful a better programming language can be.
Unfortunately, even typescript - despite of how great of a language it is - isn't capable yet to support even basic cases.
For instance, using the features of the language to describe a nested structure of components, each of which has different dependencies that are a subset of its parents dependencies. Such a thing cannot be expressed with typescript, so frameworks/libraries all come up with their own way of doing that and in consequence giving up on typesafety and hence making it way harder to understand things and way easier to make subtle mistakes.
I hope we will see major improvements on that front eventually. However, powerful programming languages are hard to learn and take time to master - something that is often doomed to not survive in the frontend world where things are fast-paced.