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Dismantling the Barriers to Entry

By Rich Harris
Communications of the ACM, October 2015, Vol. 58 No. 10, Pages 52-57
10.1145/2788399
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Dismantling the Barriers to Entry, illustrative photo — Credit: iomis

A war is being waged in the world of Web development. On one side is a vanguard of toolmakers and tool users, who thrive on the destruction of bad old ideas ("old," in this milieu, meaning anything that debuted on Hacker News more than a month ago) and raucous debates about transpilers and suchlike.

On the other side is an increasingly vocal contingent of developers who claim—not entirely without justification—the head-spinning rate of innovation makes it impossible to stay up to date, and the Web is disintegrating into a jumble of hacks upon opinions, most of which are wrong, and all of which will have changed by the time hot-new-thing.js reaches version 1.0.0.

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