Ask HN: I’m falling out of love with coding

Glad you enjoyed yourself. And yes safety is paramount. Gloves and glasses are a staple for me, and hearing protection. I know a guy that lost the tip of his thumb. And not from a saw accident either. He got a splinter and it became infected. He tarried going to the doctor and ended up needing to have the tip amputated.

Add in that management will make commitments to customers without having any idea what it will take to execute, schedule 20 hours of meetings per week, expect us to work a total of 60-80 hours a week to meet the arbitrary schedule, and also change priorities seemingly at random based on which customer is making the most noise.

The best part is HR regularly talks about how we are a certified great place to work with amazing work life balance.

I'd quit but equity...

I started my career in the server rendered 'rails like' monolithic web framework days, where only sprinkles of JS using libs like jQuery and prototype were being used for a bit of UI dynamism.

I saw (and partook in!) the rise of what I'll call the 'client-rendered' era with libs like Angular and React. This is often also referred to as SPAs, but SPA really is just an implementation detail. The important bit is that most responsibility for rendering, data, and state management, takes place on the client - be it in a single-page bundle architecture or no.

I saw that happen from the ground floor and so I know what momentum building for that kind of paradigm shift looks like. It takes years, and goes through various stages of hype cycle. I remember 2-3 years into this cycle many companies and parts of industry not yet taking React seriously, or believing it was or would be something very important in the industry (regardless of your opinion of it we can all agree it is important).

The point being that these changes and turnarounds are very, very slow indeed. I believe we're now about two years in to a shift back the other way, to a fundamentally more server-based approach taking only the best ideas of the client-rendered era and throwing away the bad ones, or at least the tradeoffs that weren't worth it.

We're seeing it in frameworks like Remix, and NextJS, and even some of the edge-based ones like Deno's Fresh (indeed, edge compute is one of the new things that exist since 10 years ago that I believe will help drive the transition back to server-based rendering).

The full transition back may take another 2, 3 or even 5 years. But I am confident now that it is happening and that it will happen. So you may want to get involved in driving this forwards!