JS community will never stop to surprise me, both in negative and positive ways. This is certainly a great idea and I no wonder it came out of JS people.
Of course we got some fatigue in the ecosystem, but things like Webpack Dashboard strengthens my belief the fatigue is a tradeoff worth to pay.
I always wondered, can blessed/react-blessed be used in the browser? I've been looking for a good JS terminal emulator for a while (not something like [1] that connects to an actual shell session). Actually, this thing featured on HN recently via Nodal looks promising [2].
I think it stems from the language with it's simple untyped syntax and data-structures.
I like larger projects to be typed and my favorite language at the moment is definitely kotlin, but for quick prototyping I really like hacking things together in JS.
It's not just about being typed or not. I know huge, successful Ruby codebases which is not typed. Ruby ecosystem is just much more consistent and convenient than JS.
Of course we got some fatigue in the ecosystem, but things like Webpack Dashboard strengthens my belief the fatigue is a tradeoff worth to pay.
BTW. if you like Blessed, certainly check out react-blessed: https://github.com/Yomguithereal/react-blessed