I hate this timeline
@kizu Honestly, i still find it the most bizarre language design decision.
Take the thing you do most often (call a variable) and make THAT the most verbose part of the syntax in turn make defining it (which you do once) the least verbose syntax.
Everytime I see a take along the lines of "JS Web Frameworks are bloated" I wish they'd just name names. These people are always talking about React/NextJS (or Angular). But no, apparently all frameworks are bad and we should imperatively updating the DOM by hand 🙄