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Ryan Carniato

It's not unusual. When I do a performance article often someone points out how ecosystem or DX or jobs are the undervalued thing we are missing. But those are always the most commonly talked about things from my perspective. Performance is something that generally gets shelved for these other priorities which is why it's important to bring awareness.

My feeling is that dev satisfaction in JavaScript is on the radar more these days than it ever has, often at the cost of performance. Which is probably why I sound like a broken record. So much so that we've seen the rise of more developer advocates and DX specialists in companies even.

I think what we have is an abundance of good choices. Svelte is likely a high, but a lot of people are really really satisfied with React, Vue, and other popular options. Sure people can always complain about what they are forced to use because of their jobs, but on the DX side things have only been getting better. I think the challenge is things like SSR are offering new territory and complexity we haven't figured out the best patterns for. But in general we've seen a maturing in the JavaScript ecosystem that has made it more accessible than ever before.