JavaScript development turns into more and more of a shitshow over time. Not that it was great at the beginning, but with each passing year it gets worse.

There are now 17 versions of Node.js, 18 versions of React.js, 3 major versions of Vue.js... Each version brings something new and no one is in a rush to update their stuff to be compatible with the latest version of the framework

In the beginning you had to beat differences between jscript and Javascript. For ages you could't do anything seriously without jQuery. You had to fuck with shadow-iframea to do Ajax. Star-hack cssa and all skets of sorry fuckery. Oh the memories. And still to do anything at least a little bit cool you had to use activeX oder actionscript (which reszricted cool to Windows for way to long. And now? You have arrow-functions, const, map/reduce, promises, async/await, you can multithread with webworkers, even can use classes, and so much more. And even on top of taht you have brillant libraries like typescript and rxjs. So yes, I disagree about Javascript, i'd say it gets better every second.

But still I share the pain of frameworks which advance to fast sometimes.

@horus ajax with iframes, that brings back memories ;)

But I used the java applet microsoft supplied in the remote scripting toolkit.

It served much the same purpose as the xmlhttprequest object but through the use of a java applet for the actual call.

It was part of the visual interdev installation.

and Node went out of its way to prevent you from installing it on windows 7 machines, as part of the heavy handed "just use windows 10 lmao" push from Microsoft.

How much longer until you need windows 11 for the current version to even work?