Understatement of the year already!

That shift will likely require bundlers & compilers to work more closely together, enabling smarter cross-module optimization. The tournament for faster builds may eventually give way to a more meaningful contest measured not in developer wait times, but in the performance users actually experience.

In this @redmonk.com post, I argue that given how much time developers waste waiting for builds, the investment is reasonable, but there’s an irony here. Huge amounts of energy have gone into improving DevX, while the actual runtime performance of what ships to the browser remains an afterthought.

Agree. As next step, try to plan toward having CI/CD automatically update things like that. On our Carbon template the automation patched this in the night before we were even aware of it.

Nowadays if you care a little bit about quality you're set for winning big in the near future.

Yeah I felt so insecure last time that I came back with my family and young kid 😄 Not felt unsafe once.