“After fifteen years of accidental complexity, the tooling is finally getting out of the way again.”
Geniar argues, correctly, that the current generation of frontend tools is the first one in years that does not actively make the work worse. Vite is fast. Bun works. The ecosystem is consolidating around fewer, better choices. The piece is the inverse of every doom-and-gloom take about the modern web. Both can be true. The platforms are degraded and the tooling is finally good. Build something.