> It took things that made you feel mentally deficient and made them almost zero-config.

What kind of things?

demetris 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What chrisweekly said:

Configuring webpack, mostly. :-D

That’s not a dig at webpack: Those tools are super complex, and hiding complexity from the user is not easy. But it seems that with Vite we finally got there.

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chrisweekly 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm not the one you replied to, but a typical config & plugins stack for (webpack + eslint + prettier) is nearly impossible to reason about. VoidZero's tools (Vite + oxcfmt + oxclint) are radically simpler and more performant.

	▲	azangru 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> a typical config & plugins stack for (webpack + eslint + prettier) is nearly impossible to reason about. I think people just don't want to bother. They don't want to read the docs, or maybe watch a video or two (back when webpack was popular, Sean Larkin, webpack evangelist, made a number of popular courses about setting it up). Also, webpack config became easier compared to 2014/2015; I think they got to practically a zero-config by default. I can understand that people don't want to care; but "impossible to reason about" is not it. It isn't rust, for crying out loud; nor lisp; nor haskell.