>So it is not a question of not being hip. We just don't need the arm bands and extra guard rails any more.
You say that, but the current state of the art is to use a package manager and a workflow with a compilation step to import packages with arbitrarily deep dependency trees just to do simple things like add numbers together or add whitespace to a string, and using frontend frameworks to do the same DOM manipulation JQuery was doing years ago, but with a virtual DOM abstracted over the actual one.
I agree with you in principle, but to me, everyone seems to be moving in the wrong direction, and as a result, the JQuery model (typically "include one library, maybe two for UI and another for the plugin") is starting to look sane.
You say that, but the current state of the art is to use a package manager and a workflow with a compilation step to import packages with arbitrarily deep dependency trees just to do simple things like add numbers together or add whitespace to a string, and using frontend frameworks to do the same DOM manipulation JQuery was doing years ago, but with a virtual DOM abstracted over the actual one.
I agree with you in principle, but to me, everyone seems to be moving in the wrong direction, and as a result, the JQuery model (typically "include one library, maybe two for UI and another for the plugin") is starting to look sane.