Joe Gregorio
So, Ryan Carniato, the author of SolidJS, posted this as a comment on his blog entry entitiled, “Web Components Are Not the Future”
Thank you for your response. A lot of this sprung from my realization just how much of a cost supporting Web Components properly has had on the library. And how it is basically endless. We doubled the size and complexity of our event delegation code in the last release (1.9) just to handle Shadow DOM better and it still falls flat for many cases because of how Shadow DOM is designed. It’s not within our means to fix, but when we say we support Web Components people come to expect it. I could delete pages of code if I didn’t care to support Web Components I could simplify many things.
To summarize, the author of a web framwork that tries to abstract how the author thinks a browser works, is complaining about the amount of work it takes to conform their abstraction to how a browser actually works.
To the author, a sufferer of the condition I refer to as abstractionitis, I offer this for all their woes, a tiny unicode violin: 🎻.