On: You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript

[FeloniousHam]

> They are also "hotshot cowboy coders" whatever that means.

Popular public libraries are exactly the place for Hotshot Cowboy Coders. Boring bespoke software is not.

A specific: generic machines taking in untyped data, executing unspecified functions at runtime. Thrilling to write, awful to maintain.