This may not be the whole story, but one of the reasons is that JavaScript does not have a standard library. Corollaries are: several different module systems, application frameworks and bundlers exist.
Of course it depends on your system but it's more a matter of minutes than of hours. It's a really enjoyable experience to hack on the system and being able to rebuild in seconds. Just have a look at some SerenityOS hacking videos, they are truly inspiring.
> well by that point it just becomes a chore and I suspect there's good logging services that do this better than you'd spend your time doing yourself.
Which is why the OP suggested using tools like goaccess.
> Depending on what country I travel to, Ill be using a different app like Grab or Didi or a local taxi app that were all made possible by Uber's initial disruption.
Local Taxi hailing apps were first. Uber adopted this and their disruption of many local markets happened only after offering cheaper alternatives by burning money.
These kinds of discussions are common with articles about deep fake video and audio. While I do not disagree with your point, here are two quick thoughts:
- We have had perfect image manipulation capabilities for quite some time now. We have had written text manipulation capabilities for hundreds of years.
- People will continue to believe what they believe, whether there is deep fake video and audio or not.
As I understand it, the author isn't even talking about web based GUI toolkits like Electron but more about the web itself (i.e. CTRL-F, back button, etc).