English will become the most popular development language in 6 years

carlsz.dev — Personal Blog

These are my opinions and are ruminations on what might be happening as more and more developers use LLMs and Frameworks to build on the web. In October last year I wrote “will developers care about frameworks in the future?” predicting that LLMs would abstract away framework choice. I was wrong—or at least, wrong about the timeline. The reality is more interesting and more permanent: React isn’t competing with other frameworks anymore. React has become the platform. And if you’re building a new framework, library or browser feature today, you need to understand that you’re not just competing with React—you’re competing against a self-reinforcing feedback loop between LLM training data, system prompts, and developer output that makes displacing React functionally impossible.

I remember my early days building for the web. We had no separation of concerns. We used <font> and <center> tags, transparent spacer.gifs, and complex table layouts to force our content into a shape. Presentation and content were a single, messy soup. My first encounter with CSS in Netscape Navigator 4 was a mind-blowing moment. It was the first time I was confronted with the idea that you could (and should) separate the document’s structure (HTML) from its presentation (CSS).

JS functions from natural language