I apologize ahead of time, what follows has no tooling applied to it. No grammar checks, no AI, and no edit passes for flow. It might be a bit rough, but that's important.
For those who know me, I've written hundreds of articles over the last 8 years. I realized very early into my journey of creating SolidJS that education was going to be a fundamental barrier. React's rhetoric had consumed the frontend space in such way that the discussion of different ideas was not welcomed warmly. It may have started with the ideas, but the complexity of the move to modern tooling had left many feeling overwhelmed. The term "JavaScript Fatigue" was being thrown around, and those who didn't sneak in before 2016 were subject to it.
My early writing was rough. I mean really rough. I'd try to articulate my ideas, but they were hard to translate. It wasn't that I didn't have decent command of the English language. I always had done well in school. But the ideas I wanted to articulate extended past code examples. They borrowed from years of observations and cross discipline learning. It would take the span of a whole article for me to get my point across and it was really easy to get lost in the details.
