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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

bendelarre ("Ben Delarre") wrote:

@sil @nolan @tomayac as a professional developer of ridiculously complicated web apps, I can with extreme prejudice say that anything the platform can do to *remove tooling* would be a good thing for my teams development.

Tooling is without doubt the biggest drag on the JS ecosystem today. I spent a disproportionate amount of time making transpiling, bundling, testing and debugging work reliably and every 'upgrade' brings a new suite of weird bugs and time sink.