API stability is an underrated killer feature of frameworks and libraries.

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• The complexity of a JavaScript bundling and transpiling toolchain is a bargain worth making, and the right default for building web applications. DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson12 Aug 2021
• JavaScript has the lowest bar of entry to being productive, but one of the highest bars of any stack to building high-quality, stable, reliable software. DMDillon Mulroy9 Jun 2024
• JavaScript frameworks cost more in maintenance than they ever save, because each new version forces a rewrite, while PHP stays the same and works. PLPieter Levels20 Aug 2024
• Compiler mechanisms that force a required optimization to occur, rather than relying on incidental compiler behavior, are a more robust way to write performance-sensitive code. NENelson Elhage9 Mar 2025
• The early Web 2.0-era promise of universal API interoperability and user ownership of data and control never materialized. BFBrad Feld4 Sept 2026

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