I expect that the people coding against a Typescript web framework have less knowledge / no knowledge of how a browser actually runs a web page. Instead, they have spent their time gaining knowledge about the build systems and such that turn ts into js for the browser.
Agree. I know that stuff because I started learning web development in the 90s and have seen many changes come and go (most people would remember marquee on almost every website back then - less people might remember XML+XSLT to create websites, which was never fully supported). If I learned web development in the last 10 years, I doubt I would know how the execution works in the browser and all the annoying quirks that come with it. They are fortunately abstracted away. Even back then nobody wanted to deal with it, we just had no choice. Everyone built their own libs to deal with it, until jQuery emerged. That was such a massive step forward.
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u/WHALE_PHYSICIST 2d ago
Kinda crazy to be talking about jQuery in 2026 and not know that