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say it louder for the mfers in the back

@shibbles at @webdirections

@elly highly skilled photo taking there. We were all too slow in the front row

@elly @shibbles @webdirections
That's why I like Svelte: it's more HTML, CSS and Javascript than it is an actual "framework" (though SvelteKit is an actual framework but I don't count SSR/backend/build process in this).

You don't usually want a "Svelte-way" of doing things: Svelte allows you to do it with plain HTML, plain CSS or plain JS.

Much better than all other frameworks 👌

@elly @shibbles @[email protected] would exclude Svelte from this:
the core team made it a fundamental principle in the lib development: don’t reinvent HTML/CSS, stick to the standards, empower users.
@elly @Gouximan @shibbles That’s a very good insight. When I worked at a web shop in the 90s, all the developers were male and all the graphic designers were female. Were HTML and CSS stigmatised as feminine early on, and was JavaScript appealing to male developers precisely because it helped them avoid what they saw as women’s work?
@benjamingeer @elly @Gouximan @shibbles you see the same here in games. People who're into tech attack every problem with tech. People who're into art... well, if your only tool (approach?) is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
@benjamingeer @elly @Gouximan ha! This is the exact topic I wanna cover in my next talk!

@benjamingeer @elly @Gouximan @shibbles that’s what I’ve been saying since JS frameworks took off.

Web was definitely “girl stuff” until then. Trying to avoid the “girl stuff” pigeonhole might be part of why I did OS stuff for years.

@maco @elly @Gouximan @shibbles This is reminding me of @histoftech's account of how programming went from being seen as a women's job to being seen as a men's job in the UK. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262535182/programmed-inequality/
Programmed Inequality

In 1944, Britain led the world in electronic computing. By 1974, the British computer industry was all but extinct. What happened in the intervening thirty y...

MIT Press
@elly @shibbles @webdirections Started out with HTML/CSS and ended the same way. I've disabled JS in all of my browsers and funny, everything works EXCEPT the popups/pop unders, ads and other annoying shit on all the pages that give me a JS "error" message.
@alandvalonline @elly @shibbles @webdirections Same, been running with NoScript since forever and a lot of stuff just works.
@elly @shibbles I'm still not convinced you can make an entire website from scratch without writing any CSS at all. And to me JSX is basically HTML seen from the perspective of JavaScript, not something entirely different from HTML.
@elly @shibbles People at vaadin.com are inventing frameworks so we developers don't need to learn javascript or javascript frameworks.