Depending on who you ask, right now JavaScript is either turning into a modern, reliable language, or a bloated, overly complex dependency hell. Or maybe both?
What's more, there's just so many options: Do you use React or Angular 2? Do you really need Webpack? And what's this month's recommended way of dealing with CSS?
Like you, I spent far too many hours reading about all this, and at the end I still wasn't sure. So I decided to create a survey to see what everybody else thought. It seems like I must've hit a nerve, because I got over 9000 answers in just over two weeks!
Further down in the article, the survey results are listed, though not in an easily scrape-able format. Oddly enough, the site degrades gracefully, and does not require Javascript to be enabled.
http://stateofjs.com/2016/introduction/
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 11 2016, @03:08PM
People are oblvious because marketing forces prevent the real message of its dangers getting out, and many sites are nearly impossible to use now without it. getting people not good at IT things to actually do more than click next...
By making it easier for everyone, we made it easier to slip on the cuffs. Escape is very hard now.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 12 2016, @04:01AM
Blame the "marketing forces" but ya'll fucked up and let it happen.