The “Developer Experience” Bait-and-Switch

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In this post, a Chrome developer goes off on the kafkaeque JavaScript tooling which slows users down because it provides a great developer experience.

I don’t think these things are orthogonal and developer experience is really important. I mean, we all hate terrible documentation don’t we? Still, sometimes the tools which are used go unexamined, leaving users with bloated software.